sufel
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sufel n
- anything eaten with bread, e.g. meat, vegetables, butter, cheese, etc
- any food as flavor for bread
Declension edit
Declension of sufel (strong a-stem)
Synonyms edit
- syflige f
Descendants edit
- Middle English: sowel, soouwil, soowel, soowil, souel, souvil, souwil, sovel, sowvel, sowil, suwle; soule, sowayle, sowll, sowlle, sowylle; suvel
- English: sowl (dialectal)
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “SUFEL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.