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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈsʌndə/
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• General-American: ə-sŭnʹdər
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• General-American: /əˈsʌndəɹ/
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• rhymes with -ʌndə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 S AH1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English asunder, asonder (“apart in position, distant; apart in movement; to pieces; alone, separately; distinct in kind, different”), asondri (“distinct, separate”), onsunder, onsondre (“apart, asunder; alone, separately; especially, particularly (?)”), from Old English onsundrum, on sundur (“asunder, apart, privately”), probably from on- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2en- (“on, onto”)) + sundor, sunder (“alone, apart; separately; privately”) (from Proto-West Germanic *sundr, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“alone, separate”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *senH- (“apart; for oneself; without”)). By surface analysis, a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’ denoting a condition, manner, or state) + sunder (“(obsolete except dialectal) different; separate”). cognates * Danish sønder * Dutch zonder * Faroese sundur * German sonder * Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍂𐍉 (sundrō) * Icelandic sundur * Norwegian Bokmål sunder, sønder * Swedish sönder

From Middle English asondren (“to alienate; to separate; to depart; to part company; to disappear”), from Old English asundran, āsundrian (“to disjoin; to separate; to sunder, put asunder; to sever”) (possibly influenced by onsundrum (adverb): see etymology 1), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“away; out”)) + sundrian (“to separate, sunder”) (from Proto-Germanic *sundrōną (“to separate, sunder”), from *sundraz (“alone, separate”) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōną (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives)).

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: but see разедине́н (razedinén) — moving apart from each other
• Bulgarian: раздалеча́вам (razdalečávam) — moving apart from each other
• Bulgarian: раздалеча́ (razdalečá) — moving apart from each other
• Bulgarian: раздалече́н (razdalečén) — moving apart from each other
• Finnish: erilleen — moving apart from each other
• Arabic: إِرْباً (ʔirban) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Bulgarian: на части (na časti) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Bulgarian: на парчета (na parčeta) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Chinese Mandarin: 四分五裂 (sìfēnwǔliè) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Czech: na kusy — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Dutch: afzonderlijk — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Dutch: uiteen — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Dutch: uit elkaar — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Finnish: hajalle — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Finnish: kahtia — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• French: en morceaux — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• German: auseinander — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• German: entzwei — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• German: in Stücke — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Italian: in pezzi — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Japanese: ばらばらに (barabara ni) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Occitan: en tròces — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Polish: na kawałki — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Portuguese: em pedaços — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Russian: на ча́сти (na části) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Russian: на куски́ (na kuskí) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Russian: врозь (vrozʹ) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Sanskrit: वि (vi) — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Scottish Gaelic: air leth — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Spanish: en dos — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Spanish: en pedazos — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Swedish: sönder — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Turkish: ayrı ayrı — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action
• Turkish: parça — into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action