Etymology

Sunde

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old Norse sund ← Proto-Germanic *sundą
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*sundą
  2. Old Norse · derived fromsund“strait, sound”
  3. English todaySunde

From the Norwegian surname named after several farmsteads, from Old Norse sund (“strait, sound”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsesund all →

sound

Proto-Germanic*sundą all →

sound

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.