suth

See also: suþ

Old Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsuːθ/

Noun

sūth n

  1. south

Descendants

  • Saterland Frisian: Sude
  • West Frisian: súd

References

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

Old Irish

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈsuθ/

Noun

suth m (genitive sotho or sotha)

  1. produce
  2. offspring
  3. milk

Inflection

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

Mutation of suth
radical lenition nasalization
suth ṡuth suth

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  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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