south
Middle English
/suːθ/
noun
Definitions
- south, southernness
- A location to the south; the south
- The south wind
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sūþ (south) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sunþrą
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Southey English
- Southgate English
- Southland English
- Southport English
- Southville English
- Suffolk English
- midsouth English
- south English
- southbound English
- southbridge English
- southcentral English
- southeastern English
- souther English
- southern English
- southie English
- southing English
- southland English
- southly English
- southmost English
- southness English
- southpaw English
- southside English
- southward English
- southwards English
- southwest English
- southwestern English
- sud French
- sur Spanish, Castilian
- *sunþrą Proto-Germanic
- suþ Old English
- sūþ Old English
- sūþ, suþ Old English
- sūþerne Old English
- haye Middle English
- southerne Middle English
- suðr Old Norse
- sud Old French
- sudo Esperanto
- sudo Ido
- *sūth Old Dutch
- sooth Scots
- suth Old Frisian
- saut Tok Pisin
- soth Cornish