sufel

Old English

Alternative forms

• sufol

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.fel/, [ˈsu.vel]

Noun

sufel n

1. anything eaten with bread, e.g. meat, vegetables, butter, cheese, etc
2. any food as flavor for bread

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sufel	sufel
accusative	sufel	sufel
genitive	sufles	sufla
dative	sufle	suflum

Synonyms

• syflige f

Derived terms

• wintersufel

Descendants

• Middle English: sowel, soouwil, soowel, soowil, souel, souvil, souwil, sovel, sowvel, sowil, suwle, soule, sowayle, sowll, sowlle, sowylle, suvel
  • English: sowl (dialectal)

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “SUFEL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.