strond

strond (plural stronds)

1. (obsolete) A beach; a strand.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 55178895, [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 vſvrpation.

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Her sunny locks / Hang on her temples like a golden fleece; / Which makes her seat of Belmont, Colchos' strond.

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