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adjective of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
adjective resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas
origin* (Bedfordshire): Recorded as Sandeie in the Domesday Book, the town is named with Old English sand (“sand”) + īeġ (“island”). Doublet of Sanday. * (Carmarthenshire): From Welsh sant + dŷ (“house of the saint”) * (Tyneside (Geordie)): sand + -y
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0