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South biography
South
One of the four cardinal directions
For other uses, see South (disambiguation).
"Southward" redirects here. For people with the surname Southward, see Southward (surname).
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 Englishsūþ, from earlier Proto-Germanic*sunþaz ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word sun derived from.
Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere),[1] like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢ