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

Further reading edit