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==Etymology==
The word ''south'' comes from [[Old English]] ''sūþ'', from earlier [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same [[Proto-Indo-European language|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),<ref>{{Cite web|title=How to use a Compass – Compass alone|url=https://www.learn-orienteering.org/old/lesson1.html|access-date=2020-07-16|website=www.learn-orienteering.org}}</ref> 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 ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of [[Yemen]], the land to the south/right of the [[Levant]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=yemen {{!}} Origin and meaning of the name yemen by Online Etymology Dictionary|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/yemen|access-date=2020-07-16|website=www.etymonline.com|language=en}}</ref>).

South is sometimes abbreviated as '''S'''.