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.

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	unchanged

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language