Sound (geography)

The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical sides that extend deep underwater.

Similarly, in North Carolina, a number of large lagoons lie between the mainland and its barrier beaches, the Outer Banks.

The term sound is derived from the Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse word sund, which also means "swimming".

[2] The word sund is also documented in Old Norse and Old English as meaning "gap" (or "narrow access").

This suggests a relation to verbs meaning "to separate", such as absondern and aussondern (German), söndra (Swedish), sondre (Norwegian), as well as the English noun sin, German Sünde ("apart from God's law"), and Swedish synd.

In German "Sund" is mainly used for place names in the Baltic Sea, like Fehmarnsund, Strelasund, and Stralsund.