suth

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See also: suþ

Old Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *sunþr. Cognates include Old English sūþ, Old Saxon sūth and Old Dutch *sūth.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sūth n

  1. south

Descendants[edit]

  • Saterland Frisian: Sude
  • West Frisian: súd

References[edit]

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *sutus. Matasović believes that the use of this term to refer to milk is etymologically unrelated to the other uses of this term.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

suth m (genitive sotho or sotha)

  1. produce
  2. offspring
  3. milk

Inflection[edit]

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative suth suthL sothae
Vocative suth suthL sothu
Accusative suthN suthL sothu
Genitive sothoH, sothaH sotho, sotha sothaeN
Dative suthL sothaib sothaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
suth ṡuth unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sutu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 359-360

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