English

forestrand

From fore- + strand (“beach, shore”).

Formed from fore- + strand ‘beach, shore’

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to broaden, spread out’

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Proto-Germanic *strandō ‘edge, rim, shore’

Proto-West Germanic *strand

Old English strand ‘strand, sea-shore, shore’

Middle English strand

Today it means

noun The intertidal zone along a shoreline or similar body of water.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / forestrand