southern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌðən/
ipa: /ˈsʌðɚn/
enpr: sŭth′ərn
note: rare, parts of Ontario and Canadian Prairies, Philippines
ipa: /ˈsaʊðɚn/
enpr: south′ərn
note: rare, parts of Ontario and Canadian Prairies, Philippines
Forms: form: more southern
form: most southern
Etymology: From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English sūþerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrōnijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sh₂wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian sūthern, sūdern (“southern”), Middle Low German sūdern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”).
By surface analysis, south + -ern.
Senses: glosses: Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
examples: text: The southern climate.
text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 52:
text: A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
ref: 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
glosses: Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
Synonyms: southerly
austral
meridional
Derived terms: Great Southern
nonsouthern
paleosouthern
southern African frilled shark
Southern Alps
southern arrowwood
Southern Athabaskan
southern banjo frog
southern beech
southern belle
southern black tit
southern bottlenose whale
Southern brawl
southern brown bandicoot
southern caracara
southern cassowary
southern common cuscus
southern crested caracara
Southern Cross
southern cypress pine
Southern Denmark
Southern Downs
southern elephant seal
southern fairy
Southern Federal District
southern flying squirrel
Southern Grampians
southern grasshopper mouse
southern green stink bug
southern hairy-nosed wombat
southern hemisphere
Southern Highlands
southernification
southernisation
southernise
southernish
southernism
southernist
southernization
southernize
southern king crab
southern lamprey
southern lapwing
southern lights
southern litter skink
southernly
southern magnolia
southern mahogany
southern masked weaver
Southern Midlands
Southern Mongolia
southernmost
southernness
Southern Ocean
southern pig-tailed macaque
Southern Region
Southern Rhodesia
southern school whiting
southern screamer
southern sennet
southern solstice
southern storm petrel
southern sushi
Southern Tablelands
southern tigrina
southern topeyed lamprey
Southern Tungusic
Southern Unionist
Southern Uplands
southern viscacha
southern vole
southernwood
southern woodland violet
southernwort
southern yellow pine
unsouthern