Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sunnô

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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

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Etymology

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    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

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    *sunnô m[2][5][3][6]

    1. the sun

    Inflection

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    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

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    References

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    1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136
    2. 2.0 2.1 Hilmarsson, Jörundur (1987) “Reflexes of I.-E. *suH2n̥to-/-ōn ‘sunny’ in Germanic and Tocharian”, in Sprache 33, pages 56–78
    3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Franck, Johannes (1892) “zon”, in Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff:Germ. *sunnô(n)-
    4. 4.0 4.1 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-
    6. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*sōel- ~ *sunnōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 463-4