"north" meaning in Middle English

See north in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /nɔrθ/ Forms: norþ [alternative], northe [alternative], norþe [alternative], norrþ [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English norþ Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro|gem-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|enm|ang|norþ}} Old English norþ Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective}} north
  1. north, northern
    Sense id: en-north-enm-adj-enm:adjective
  2. At the north
    Sense id: en-north-enm-adj-blC0NpOK

Adverb

IPA: /nɔrθ/ Forms: norþ [alternative], northe [alternative], norþe [alternative], norrþ [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English norþ Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro|gem-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|enm|ang|norþ}} Old English norþ Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb}} north
  1. To the north, northwards Categories (topical): Compass points
    Sense id: en-north-enm-adv-enm:adverb Disambiguation of Compass points: 4 4 38 3 0 46 6 0
  2. From the north
    Sense id: en-north-enm-adv-4j~R8UK9
  3. In the north
    Sense id: en-north-enm-adv-wo7O6xYH

Noun

IPA: /nɔrθ/ Forms: norþ [alternative], northe [alternative], norþe [alternative], norrþ [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English norþ Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro|gem-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|enm|ang|norþ}} Old English norþ Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} north
  1. north, northernness Categories (topical): Compass points
    Sense id: en-north-enm-noun-enm:noun Disambiguation of Compass points: 4 4 38 3 0 46 6 0
  2. A location to the north; the north Coordinate_terms (compass point): est, south, west
    Sense id: en-north-enm-noun-1959Cwk- Disambiguation of 'compass point': 0 100 0
  3. The north wind
    Sense id: en-north-enm-noun-mlNfMHbA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: northerne, Northfolk, Northumberlond, Northumbre
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (9e2b7d3 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.