Sandwich
English edit
Etymology edit
The family name is from Old English Sandwiċæ, from sand + wīċ (“wick, settlement, harbour, hamlet”).
Proper noun edit
Sandwich
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, United Kingdom, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
- An English habitational surname originating from this town.
- One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
- A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
- A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
- A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.
Derived terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English sandwich.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Sandwich n or (also in Germany) m (strong, genitive Sandwichs or Sandwiches or Sandwich, plural Sandwichs or Sandwiches or Sandwiche)
- sandwich (snack)
- Synonym: belegtes Brot
Usage notes edit
- The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce, normally featuring toasted bread or a bread roll. Plainer variants with traditional German bread go by a variant of regional German names like Stulle. Variants with a bread roll often go simply by Brötchen (“bread roll”).
- The noun is generally neuter, but may be treated as masculine by some speakers.
- The inflected forms above are loosely ordered by frequency. The plural is usually Sandwiches in formal writing, but the two alternative plurals are equally frequent in common usage.
Declension edit
Declension of Sandwich [neuter // masculine (also in Germany), strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das, der | Sandwich | die | Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche |
genitive | eines | des | Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwich | der | Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche |
dative | einem | dem | Sandwich, Sandwiche1 | den | Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwichen |
accusative | ein, einen | das, den | Sandwich | die | Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche |
1Now rare, see notes.
Further reading edit
Plautdietsch edit
Noun edit
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