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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sunnô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

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,[1] or leveled from earlier paradigm *sundō ~ *sunᵈnaz, from *sundaz (“sunny”) +‎ *-ô (agent suffix). from *sh₂un-tó-s, from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *sh₂wéns +‎ *-tós.[2] 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”).[3][4]

Noun

*sunnô m[2][5][3]

  1. the sun

Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *sunnô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *sunnô *sunnaniz
vocative *sunnô *sunnaniz
accusative *sunnanų *sunnanunz
genitive *sunniniz *sunnanǫ̂
dative *sunnini *sunnammaz
instrumental *sunninē *sunnammiz

Descendants

References
  1. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136
  2. Hilmarsson, Jörundur (1987) “Reflexes of I.-E. *suH2n̥to-/-ōn ‘sunny’ in Germanic and Tocharian”, in Sprache 33, pages 56–78
  3. Franck, Johannes (1892) “zon”, in Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff: “Germ. *sunnô(n)-”
  4. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*séh₂u̯el-, *sh₂(u)u̯en-(?), *sh₂un-, ·suh₂l-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 606: “germ. *sunn-an- in got. DSg. sunnin, as. ahd. sunno m.”
  5. Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “sunne”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 382: “PGMC: *sunnō, *sunnan-”
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