sondry
Middle English
Alternative forms
- sundry, sindry
Etymology
From Old English syndriġ (“separate, single; sundry, various, distinct; special, private, peculiar, exceptional, particular; characteristic; (distributive) one each”), from sundor (“asunder, apart, separately””).
Adjective
sondry
- sundry, various
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 13-14.
- And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
- To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
- And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
- To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 13-14.
Descendants
- Scots: sindry
- English: sundry
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