sunnan

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Adverb

sunnan (not comparable)

  1. coming from the south
  2. located to the south

Old English

Noun

sunnan

  1. accusative/genitive/dative singular of sunna

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunþanē (“from the south”). Cognate with Old English sūþan, Old High German sundan.

Adverb

sunnan (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: sunnan
  • Faroese: sunnan
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sunnan
  • Old Swedish: sunnan
  • Danish: sønden

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sunnan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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