suþdæl

Old English

Etymology

From sūþ (“south”) +‎ dǣl (“part”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːθˌdæːl/, [ˈsuːðˌdæːl]

Noun

sūþdǣl m

1. the south, a southern part or region
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     ...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes.

     ...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sūþdǣl	sūþdǣlas
accusative	sūþdǣl	sūþdǣlas
genitive	sūþdǣles	sūþdǣla
dative	sūþdǣle	sūþdǣlum

See also

• norþdǣl
• westdǣl

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “súþ-dǽl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.