sunnan

== Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsʏnːan/ Rhymes: -ʏnːan === Adverb === sunnan (not comparable) coming from the south located to the south == Old English == === Noun === sunnan inflection of sunne / sunna: accusative/genitive/dative singular nominative/accusative plural == 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: ==== 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