Strand
/strænd/noun
A line or strip of material, especially a single thread, hair, or rope fiber; also a shore or beach.
Did you know?The “thread” sense and the “shore” sense of strand come from different historical sources, so English accidentally fused two unrelated words into one spelling.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*stere-
“to spread, strew”
Old English
OE
strond
“shore, beach, riverbank”
Old Norse
ON
strǫnd
“shore, strand”
Middle English
English
stronde / strand
“shore, beach; later also a single thread or fiber”
Modern English
English
strand
“a single thread, fiber, or filament; also a shore or beach”