sunu

See also: sūnu, suņu, and šunų

Amdang

Alternative forms

• súnù, súnů (Jungraithmayr's spelling)
• sʊnu (Wolf's spelling)

Noun

sunu

1. water

References

• George Starostin, On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship (2011)

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Gothic

Romanization

sunu

1. (deprecated template usage) Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian sunu, Old Saxon sunu, Dutch zoon, Old High German sunu (German Sohn), Old Norse sonr (Swedish son), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 (sunus). The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit सूनु (sūnu), Lithuanian sūnus, Proto-Slavic *synъ (Old Church Slavonic сꙑнъ (synŭ), Russian сын (syn)); and more distantly of Ancient Greek υἱύς (huiús), Old Irish suth (“birth, fruit”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈsunu/

Noun

sunu m (nominative plural suna)

1. son, male child

Declension

Declension of sunu (strong u-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sunu	suna
accusative	sunu	suna
genitive	suna	suna
dative	suna	sunum

Derived terms

• sunsunu

Descendants

• English: sone, sune
  • English: son
  • Scots: son

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunuz, whence also Old Saxon and Old English sunu, Old Norse sonr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

sunu m

1. son

Descendants

• Middle High German: sun, suon, sūn, son
  • German: Sohn
  • Yiddish: זון (zun)

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunuz, whence also Old High German and Old English sunu, Old Norse sonr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

sunu m

1. son

Declension

Declension of sunu (masculine u-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	sunu	suni
accusative	sunu	suni
genitive	sunies, suneas	sunio, suno
dative	suno, sunie, suni, sune	sunun, suniun
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: sune, sȫne
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Söhn
    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Suone

      Sauerländisch: Suen, Seyen, Sōn

      Westmünsterländisch: Sönn, Sonn, Sonne

  • Plautdietsch: Sän

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Turkish

Noun

sunu (definite accusative sunuyu, plural sunular)

1. introduction to a writing
2. offer
3. supply

Synonyms

• takdim

See also

• sunum