Sonne

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See also: Sönne, sonne, sonné, and sönne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish and German Sonne.

Proper noun

Sonne (plural Sonnes)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Sonne is the 35395th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 636 individuals. Sonne is most common among White (94.34%) individuals.

References

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Die Sonne — The Sun (1)
Sonnenlicht von der Erde aus gesehen. — Sunlight as seen from Earth. (2)

Etymology

From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh̥₂uén-, oblique stem of *sóh₂wl̥.

Akin to Low German Sünn, Zunne, Dutch zon, English sun, West Frisian sinne, Icelandic sunna. Further Indo-European cognates include Latin sōl, Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), Sanskrit सूर्य (sū́rya), Russian солнце (solnce), Lithuanian saulė, Welsh haul.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɔnə/ (prescriptive standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔnɛ/ (Austrian standard)
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  • Rhymes: -ɔnə

Proper noun

Sonne f (proper noun, genitive Sonne)

  1. (astronomy) the Sun
    Die Sonne ist eine Lichtquelle.
    The Sun is a light source.

Noun

Sonne f (genitive Sonne, plural Sonnen)

  1. (astronomy) a sun (a star, especially when being the center of a solar system)
    Synonyms: Stern, Gestirn
    Hypernym: Stern
    Hyponyms: Asteroid, Komet, Planet
  2. (uncountable) sunshine, sunlight (the light and warmth we receive on Earth from the sun)
    Synonyms: Sonnenschein, Sonnenlicht
    Wir hatten den ganzen Tag Sonne. ― We had sunshine all day.
    Geh mir aus der Sonne! ― Get lost! (literally, “Move me out of the sunshine!”)
    Laut Wetterbericht wird es morgen Sonne geben. ― According to the weather forecast there will be sunshine tomorrow.

Declension

Declension of Sonne
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Sonne die Sonnen
genitive einer der Sonne der Sonnen
dative einer der Sonne den Sonnen
accusative eine die Sonne die Sonnen

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Sonne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Sonne” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Sonne” in Duden online
  • Sonne on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Limburgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzo.nə/
  • Hyphenation: Son‧ne
  • Rhymes: -onə

Etymology 1

From earlier sune, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Alternative forms

Noun

Sonne m (plural Sonne, diminutive Sönnke)

  1. (Eupen) son

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Sonne

  1. (Eupen) nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Sonne

Noun

Sonne

  1. (Eupen) nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Sonn
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