Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
From Middle English sowel, souel, suvel (“food eaten with bread; food in general”), from Old English sufel, sufol (“anything (especially relish) eaten with bread; sowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *sufl, from Proto-Germanic *suflą (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice; moisture; rain”). The word is cognate with Danish sul (“sowl”), Middle Dutch suvel, zuvel (Dutch zuivel (“dairy products”)), Middle Low German suvel, süvel, suffel (“sowl”), Old High German sufil, sufili, Old Norse sufl, Norwegian suvl, sovl, sul (“milk porridge; food eaten with bread, porridge or soup”), Saterland Frisian süfel (“dairy products”), Swedish sovel (“sowl”), West Frisian suvel (“dairy products”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsowelenm
- Inherited-form mentionsufelang
- Inherited-form mention*suflgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*suflągem-pro
- Derivation mention*seu-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsulda
- Cognate mentionsuveldum
- Cognate mentionzuivelnl
- Cognate mentionsuvelgml
- Cognate mentionsufilgoh
- Cognate mentionsuflnon
- Cognate mentionsuvlno
- Cognate mentionsüfelstq
- Cognate mentionsovelsv
- Cognate mentionsuvelfy
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