Word Origin Summary

Sud is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• sud

  Catalan · borrowed from

• sud

  Corsican · borrowed from

• Ilocos Sur

  Cebuano · derived from

• sul

  Portuguese · derived from

• Ilocos Sur

  Tagalog · derived from

• sud

  French · inherited from

• sud

  Romanian · borrowed from

• sur

  Spanish · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root