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/sʌn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun From Middle English soen, son, sone, sonne, sun, sune, sunna, sunne, sunnæ, synne, zonne, zunne, from Old English sunna, sunne, sunnu (“sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”), from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognates Cognate with Scots sun (“sun”), Yola zin (“sun”), North Frisian san, Sen (“sun”), Saterland Frisian Sunne (“sun”), West Frisian sinne (“sun”), Alemannic German ŝchunna, ŝchunnà, sònnò, sunna, sunnu, Sunnä (“sun”), Bavarian Sun, suna, sune, Sunn, sunne (“sun”), Cimbrian sonde, sunn, zunna (“sun”), Dutch zon, zonne (“sun”), German Sonne (“sun”), Limburgish Ṣon, Sonn, zón (“sun”), Low German Sünn, Sünne (“sun”), Luxembourgish Sonn (“sun”), Mòcheno sunn (“sun”), Vilamovian zun, zunn (“sun”), West Flemish zunne (“sun”), Yiddish זון (zun, “sun”), Icelandic sunna (“sun”), Crimean Gothic sune (“sun”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō, “the Sun”); outside of Germanic, Cornish howl (“sun”), Irish súil (“eye; expectation, hope”), Manx sooill (“eye”), Scottish Gaelic sùil (“eye; vision; glance, look; expectation, hope”), Welsh haul, huan (“sun”), Latin sōl (“sun”), Greek ήλιος (ílios, “sun”), Albanian diell (“sun”), Latgalian and Latvian saule (“sun”), Lithuanian saulė (“sun”), Belarusian со́нца (sónca, “sun”), Bulgarian слъ́нце (slǎ́nce, “sun”), Czech slunce (“sun”), Macedonian солнце (solnce), сонце (sonce, “sun”), Polish słońce (“sun”), Russian со́лнце (sólnce, “sun”), Serbo-Croatian су̑нце, sȗnce (“sun”), Slovak slnce (“sun”), Slovene sonce (“sun”), Ukrainian со́нце (sónce, “sun”), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (huuar^ə, “sun”), Central Kurdish خۆر (xor, “sun”), Gurani وەر (wer, “sun; front”), Ossetian хор (xor), хур (xur, “sun”), Persian هور (hur), خور (xor / xwar, “sun”), Shughni хӣр (xīr, “sun”), Yaghnobi хур (xur, “sun”), Tocharian B swāñco (“beam, ray, sunbeam”), Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), Sanskrit स्वर् (svar, “sun”). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.

  1. derived from *sóh₂wl̥✻ — “sun”
  2. inherited from *sunnǭ✻ — “sun”
  3. inherited from *sunnā✻
  4. inherited from sunna
  5. inherited from soen

Definitions

  1. The star that is closest to the Earth.

    • And the cite hath no nede of the ſunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bꝛynghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit.
    • "I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
    • 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

  2. A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.

  3. The light and heat which are received from the Sun

    The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.

    • Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
    • His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.

      • For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]
      • […] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […]

    2. Sunrise or sunset.

    3. A revolution of the Earth around the Sun

      A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.

    4. A transversing of the sky by the Sun

      A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.

      • Four suns since was the word brought to me from ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed,’ ‘White men come; if white men come, slay them not.’ Let them be brought to the house of ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed.’

    5. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.

    6. The thirty-first Lenormand card.

    7. To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.

      • Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
      • There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...

    8. To warm or dry in the sunshine.

    9. To be exposed to the sun.

    10. To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

    11. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).

    12. Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”).

    13. The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky,…

      The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.

    14. The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

    15. An English tabloid newspaper.

    16. Abbreviation of Sunday.

    17. A surname.

    18. The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.

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Derived

aftersun, antisun, catch the sun, clear as the sun at noonday, countersun, day in the sun, everything under the sun, Fifth Sun, fix the roof while the sun is shining, fly too close to the sun, follow the sun, glory-of-the-sun, go to bed with the sun, have had one's day under the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, Land of the Ascendant Sun, low-sun, make hay while the sun shines, mean sun, midnight sun, mock sun, moment in the sun, nothing new under the sun, place in the sun, protosun, purple glory-of-the-sun, rise with the sun, Rising Sun, stink like a mackerel in the sun, sun and planet gear, sun anemone shrimp, sun-angel, sunangel, sunback, sunbake, sun ball, sun barge, sunbath, sun bath, sun-bath · +256 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sun. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sun. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sun

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA