Obs. Forms: 1–3 suðen, 5 soþen; 4 southen, 5, 6 Sc., southyn. [f. SOUTH adv. + -EN4, or repr. OE. súðan adv. (= MDu. and MLG. suden, OHG. sundan, ON. sunnan) ‘from the south,’ in the comb. súðanwind.] Of the wind: South, southerly.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 143. Auster, uel nothus, suðen wind.
c. 1150. Canterbury Ps. lxxvii. 26. And he æwehte suðenwind [Vesp. Ps. suðanwind] of heofonum.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3084. A suðen wind is fliȝt up-wond, And blew ðat day.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter lxxvii. 30. He forthbroght southenwind fra heuen.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. lxi. (Bodl. MS.). The norþen winde greueth þe fige tree more þan þe soþen winde.
14[?]. in Hartshorne, Anc. Met. Tales, 128. Southyn wyndys that som tyme blowe, Makyn mastys to bowen.
1549. Compl. Scotl., vi. 61. Auster or meridional vynd, quhilk the vulgaris callis southyn vynd.
