köken: From ج ن ب (j n b) with the base stem meaning “to go aside”, “to go far off in a direction”, ”to remove to a distance”, “to be remote”, “to change” or “to veer”, “to take off one's clothes” or “to lay them aside”. The direction originates as the name of a positively-viewed warm-moist southerly wind, the humid weather allowing clothes to be laid aside, whereas شَمَال (šamāl, “north”) comes from a…
köken: Inherited from Late Old Swedish sø̄der, sø̄dher, sudher, from Old Norse suðr, with the ø-umlaut from södre, Old Swedish syþre, Old Norse syðri (comparative); compare the ø in Norwegian sør, Danish sønder. Doublet of syd. Compare dialectal Danish sønder, Old Norse sunnr, Old High German sundar. Other adverb-forms: Old Swedish suþer, sydher, syþir; dialectal Swedish suder, sör (compare Norwegian…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etelä (“south, southwest”) (compare Estonian edel (“southwest”)). Equivalent of esi- (“front”) + -lä, meaning something like “the direction towards which entrances in houses/huts face”; named so because dwellings tended to be built facing south, as it was the warmest direction (as that is where the sun shines from at noon in northern Europe).