sufel
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsu.fel/, [ˈsu.vel]
Noun
sufel n
- anything eaten with bread, e.g. meat, vegetables, butter, cheese, etc
- any food as flavor for bread
Declension
Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sufel | sufel |
accusative | sufel | sufel |
genitive | sufles | sufla |
dative | sufle | suflum |
Synonyms
- syflige f
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: sowel, soouwil, soowel, soowil, souel, souvil, souwil, sovel, sowvel, sowil, suwle, soule, sowayle, sowll, sowlle, sowylle, suvel
- English: sowl (dialectal)
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “SUFEL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.