Other forms: sandals
A sandal is an open summer shoe held on with straps. A pair of sandals, leather sandals, walking sandals.
It is among the oldest surviving forms of footwear — examples ten thousand years old have been found — and the design has barely changed because it does not need to. Note that the word looks like sand and is not related: it comes through Latin from a Greek word of unknown origin.
1nounsandalAn open summer shoe held on with straps.
“She kicked off her sandals and walked barefoot along the beach.”
sandal is a shoe.
Also accepted in games: sandals
Greek sandalion is a diminutive of sandalon, a sandal, of unknown origin. The resemblance to sand is an accident.
Ancient Greek
σανδάλιον
Latin
sandalium
Old French
sandale
Middle English
sandal — sandal
English, today
sandal
Built from
From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον, diminutive of σάνδαλον (“sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA