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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *sunnǭ</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_sunnǭ</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_cognate_sol_m" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>cognate sōl m</orth>
          <def>sun</def>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_sunno_x2" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sunnǭ">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>sunnǭ</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈsun.nɔ̃ː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᚢᚾᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ōn-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>the sun</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Possibly feminized from *sunnô (‘sun’) in an opposing gender pair with masculine *mēnô (‘moon’), akin to Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_cognate_sol_m"><ref target="#cog_lat_cognate_sol_m">cognate sōl m</ref></mentioned> (‘sun’) and lūna f (‘moon’). Note the possibility of influence on or from the gender of their personifications in Germanic mythology, which are accordingly female and male.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>sunnǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>sunnōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>sunnōnų</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>sunnōnunz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>sunnōniz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>sunnōnǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>sunnōni</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>sunnōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>sunnōnē</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>sunnōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>sunnǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>sunnōniz</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>sonne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Limburgish</lang>
                        <orth>zón</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>West Flemish</lang>
                        <orth>zunne</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Zealandic</lang>
                        <orth>zunne</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>sonne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>zon, zun</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>son</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Berbice Creole Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>sono</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Jersey Dutch</lang>
                          <orth>zon</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Negerhollands</lang>
                          <orth>son, zon</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Sranan Tongo</lang>
                          <orth>son</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>sunne</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>sonne, sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen, zunne, zonne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>sun</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>sun</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>zin</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>sunne</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>?</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Sunne</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>sinne</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>sunne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Sunnä</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Son</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Sonne</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Rhine Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>?</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Vilamovian</lang>
                        <orth>zunn, zun</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>זון (zun)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>sunne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>Sonn, Sunn</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Hunsrik</lang>
                          <orth>Sunn, Sonn</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                          <orth>Sonn</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>sunne, sonne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Sonn</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*sunnā</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>sunne, sonne</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Sünne, Sonne</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Dutch Low Saxon</lang>
                          <orth>zunne</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>Sünn, Sünne, Sonn, Sonne</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>sunna</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>sunna</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>sjiner</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Crimean Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>sune</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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