Suffolk

From Middle English Suffolk, from Old English Sūþfolc, a compound of sūþ (“south”) + folc (“folk”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌf.ək/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌf.ək/, /ˈsʌf.ɪk/

Suffolk

1. A maritime county in the east of England, bordered by Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North Sea.

   Holonym: East Anglia

   Comeronym: Norfolk

   • 2024 December 26, Donna Ferguson, “‘Britain’s wildlife safari’: baby boom in Norfolk as seal colonies flourish”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Seals are flourishing about 50 miles farther south, too. In 2021, a group of grey seals established the first seal colony in nearby Suffolk and began breeding on a remote shingle beach at Orford Ness, now a National Trust site but once the location for cold war weapons-testing.

2. A neighbourhood of Andersonstown, West Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J2870).
3. An independent city in Virginia, United States, formerly in Nansemond County, Virginia.
4. Suffolk County.

• Norfolk, named as a pair with Suffolk

• Suthfolk, suffolke, Suthfok, Southfolk, Southfolc, Suthfolke, souþfolc, suþfolk

From Old English Sūþfolc; equivalent to south +‎ folk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu(θ)ˌfɔlk/

Suffolk

1. Suffolk (a county of eastern England)

• English: Suffolk

• “Sǒuth-folk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.