sunnan

See also: Sunnan

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏnːan/

  Rhymes: -ʏnːan

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

• (from compass point): austan, norðan, vestan

Related terms

• sól f (“sun”)
• suðr (“south”)

Descendants

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