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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Adverb
sunnan (not comparable)
- coming from the south
- located to the south
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sunþanē (“from the south”). Cognate with Old English sūþan, Old High German sundan.
Adverb
sunnan (not comparable)
- from the south
- Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
[…] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, […]- sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall.
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Descendants
References
- “sunnan”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press