strond

strond (plural stronds)

1. Obsolete spelling of strand.
   • 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:

     A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought
     A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet:
     To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Yea this mans brow, like to a title leafe,
     Foretells the nature of a tragicke volume,
     So lookes the ſtrond, whereon the imperious floud,
     Hath left a witneſt vſurpation.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:

     Baſſ[anio]. […] and her ſunny locks
     Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
     Which makes her ſeat of Belmont Cholchos ſtrond,
     And many Iaſons come in queſt of her.

From Old Norse strǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *strandō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with Lithuanian trénta (“place, region, direction”).

• IPA^(key): /strɔnt/

strond f (genitive singular strandar, plural strendur)

1. beach
2. coast

strond (plural strondes)

1. Alternative form of strand