An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Strand

by Friedrich Kluge

Strand, masculine, ‘strand, beach,’ from late Middle High German (Middle German) strant (d), masculine, adopted as a literary term from Low German; compare Dutch strand, Anglo-Saxon strand, English strand, Old Icelandic strǫnd. These cognates, from which Old French étrain is borrowed, cannot be traced farther back. To this is allied the Modern High German stranden, equivalent to Dutch stranden, English to strand. Compare Ufer.