South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology. The word south comes from Old English sūþ, from earlier Proto-Germanic *sunþaz ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word sun derived from.
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South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology. The word south comes from Old English sūþ, from earlier Proto-Germanic *sunþaz ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word sun derived from.
