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súþ-healf

  • noun [ feminine ]
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súþ-healf, e; f.
The south side, mostly, if not exclusively, in the phrase on (ða) súþhealfe
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  • On súðhealfe ad meridianam plagam, Num. 3, 29:

    contra meridiem,

      Deut. 1, 7.
  • On súþhealfe

    a meridie,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 10, 26: 14, 2.
  • On súðhealfe ðære eás,

      Chr. 921; Erl. 108, 18: 913; Erl. 102, 10.
  • On súðhalfe Humbre streámes

    ad meridianam Humbrae fluminis ripam,

      Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 19.
  • Hí wendon ábútan Penwihtsteort on ða súðhealfe,

      Chr. 997; Erl. 135, 10.
  • Hí wendon tó Lundene and dulfon áne mycele díc on ða súðhealfe (on súðhealfe,

      MS. D.), 1016; Erl. 155, 9.
  • On ða súðhealfe fram Babilonia

    in dextera parte ab Babilonia,

      Nar. 34, 17.
  • On ða súðhealfe (

    dexteriore parte

    ) landes
      Egiptna, 34.
  • On ða súðhealfe gársecges

    oceano dexteriore parte,

      36, 15.
  • (Cf. O. H. Ger. sunder-teil under súþ-dǽl.)
Etymology
[Þe an is a norðhalf, þe oðer a suðhalf, Laym. 15937. O. H. Ger. sund-, sundar-halpa auster, meridies: Icel. súdr-hálfa the southern region.]
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  • súþ-healf, n.