An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Sandel

by Friedrich Kluge

Sandel, masculine, ‘sandal-wood,’ Modern High German only, from Italian sandalo (French sandal), ‘an Indian dyeing wood’; “from Greek σάνταλον, which comes from Arabic zandal, but originally derived from Sanscrit candana. The tree grows in the East Indies, whence the wood was brought to the West as an article of commerce.”