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▪ I. † southen, a. Obs.
Forms: 1–3 suðen, 5 soþen; 4 southen, 5, 6 Sc., southyn.
[f. south adv. + -en4, or repr. OE. súðan adv. (= MDu. and MLG. suden, OHG. sundan, ON. sunnan) ‘from the south’, in the comb. súðanwind.]
Of the wind: South, southerly.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 143 Auster, uel nothus, suðen wind. c1150Canterbury Ps. lxxvii. 26 And he æwehte suðenwind [Vesp. Ps. suðanwind] of heofonum. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3084 A suðen wind is fliȝt up-wond, And blew ðat day. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxvii. 30 He forth⁓broght southenwind fra heuen. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxi. (Bodl. MS.), The norþen winde greueth þe fige tree more þan þe soþen winde. 14..in Hartshorne Anc. Met. Tales 128 Southyn wyndys that som tyme blowe, Makyn mastys to bowen. 1549Compl. Scotl. vi. 61 Auster or meridional vynd, quhilk the vulgaris callis southyn vynd.
▪ II. † ˈsouthen, adv. Obs.—1
In 3 suðen.
[Misuse of OE. súðan, or error for suð.]
Southwards.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1167 Suðen he wente & wunede in geraris. |