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): /ˈsuvel/

Noun

sufel n

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

Declension
Declension of sufel (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative sufel sufel
accusative sufel sufel
genitive sufles sufla
dative sufle suflum

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Middle English: suvel, souvel, souel

Further reading
  • SUFEL in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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