*sunder

Runic: ᛊᚢᚾᛞᛖᚱ Pronunciation: /ˈsun.der/

adverb

Meanings

asunder, apart, separately

Etymology

From Pre-Germanic *sn̥tér or *sn̥Htér, from Proto-Indo-European *sen-, *senH-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄτερ (áter) (áter, ‘apart from, without’). Compare Sanskrit सनुतर् (sanutar) (sanutar, ‘apart from’).

Descendants

  • sundor (Old English)
    • sunder (English)
    • sinder (Scots)
  • sunder (Old English)
    • sunder (English)
    • sinder (Scots)
  • sunder (Old Frisian)
  • sundar (Old Saxon)
  • sunder (Old Dutch)
    • zonder (Dutch)
  • sundr (Old Norse)
    • sundur (Faroese)
    • sundur (Icelandic)
    • sund (Norwegian Bokmål)
    • sund, sunder (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • sundr (Old Norse)
    • sønder (Danish)
      • sønder (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • sundr (Old Norse)
    • sunder, synder (Old Swedish)
      • sönder (Swedish)

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