*sunnô

Runic: ᛊᚢᚾᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈsun.nɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

the sun

Etymology

(SS: See Sun and Moon paper in Celtic in PIE folder matasovic) Suggested to be a nominalization of a lost adjective, possibly from *sunnaz (‘sunny’) + *-ô (agent suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-wó-s, from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *sh₂wéns (‘sun’) + *-wós, or leveled from earlier paradigm *sundō ~ *sunᵈnaz, from *sundaz (‘sunny’) + *-ô (agent suffix). from *sh₂un-tó-s, from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *sh₂wéns + *-tós. Feminine *sunnǭ (‘sun’) perhaps constructed in an opposing gender pair with masculine *mēnô (‘moon’), akin to Latin cognate sōl m (‘sun’) and lūna f (‘moon’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	sunnô	sunnaniz
Acc.	sunnanų	sunnanunz
Gen.	sunniniz	sunnanǫ̂
Dat.	sunnini	sunnammaz
Inst.	sunninē	sunnammiz
Voc.	sunnô	sunnaniz

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Descendants

*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunna (Old Frisian)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old Dutch)
  - sonne (Middle Dutch)
    - zón (Limburgish)
    - zunne (West Flemish)
    - zunne (Zealandic)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old Dutch)
  - sonne (Middle Dutch)
    - zon, zun (Dutch)
      - son (Afrikaans)
      - sono (Berbice Creole Dutch)
      - zon (Jersey Dutch)
      - son, zon (Negerhollands)
      - son (Sranan Tongo)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunna (Old English)
  - sonne, sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen, zunne, zonne (Middle English)
    - sun (English)
    - sun (Scots)
    - zin (Yola)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old High German)
  - sunne (Middle High German)
    - Sunnä (Alemannic German)
    - Son (Bavarian)
    - Sonne (German)
    - ? (Rhine Franconian)
    - zunn, zun (Vilamovian)
    - זון (zun) (Yiddish)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old High German)
  - sunne (Middle High German)
    - Sonn, Sunn (Central Franconian)
      - Sunn, Sonn (Hunsrik)
      - Sonn (Luxembourgish)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old Saxon)
  - sonne (Middle Low German)
    - Sonn (Plautdietsch)
*sunnō (Proto-West Germanic)
- sunno (Old Saxon)
  - sonne (Middle Low German)
    - Sünne, Sonne (Low German)
      - zunne (Dutch Low Saxon)
      - Sünn, Sünne, Sonn, Sonne (German Low German)
*𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰 (*sunna) (Gothic)
𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌹𐌽 (sunnin) (Gothic)

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