sonne

sonne (plural sonnes)

1. Obsolete spelling of son.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 3:21, signature Hh3, recto, column 2:

     And when I roſe in the moꝛning to giue my childe ſucke, behold, it was dead: but when I had conſidered it in the moꝛning, beholde, it was not my ſonne, which I did beare.

   • 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby

     She moved where Lindis wandereth,

     My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth.

sonne (plural sonnes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sun.

• Nones, neons, nones, onsen

• IPA^(key): /sɔn/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔn

sonne

1. inflection of sonner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔnə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophone: Sonne

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender-unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

• so'ne, sone

sonne

1. (colloquial) contraction of so eine (“such a”) (so, ein)
2. Ungrammatical synonym of solch in plural.

   Wer macht denn sonne Sachen?

   Who would do such things?

sonne

1. inflection of sonnen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Old Dutch sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

sonne f

1. sun
2. sunshine, sunlight

• sunne

• Dutch: zon, zonne (obsolete), zun (dialectal)
  • Afrikaans: son
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: sono
  • Jersey Dutch: zon
  • Negerhollands: son, zon
  • → Sranan Tongo: son (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: zón
• West Flemish: zunne
• Zealandic: zunne

• “sonne”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sonne”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

• sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen
• zunne (Southwest Midland)
• zonne (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun(ə)/

sonne (plural sonnes)

2. The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 7-9:

     […] and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his half cours yronne / And smale foweles maken melodye […]

     […] and the young Sun / has made half its journey in Aries, / while small birds make melodies […]

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 12:1, folio 121, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ a greet ſıgne apperıde ĩ heuene / a wõman cloþıd wıþ þe ſũne · ⁊ þe moone vndur hır feet ⁊ · ĩ þe heed of hır a coꝛoũ of twelue ſterrıs

     And an important sign appeared in the sky: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon underneath her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

3. The light and warmth that radiates from the sun; sunlight.
4. (rare) A heavy, yellow metal; gold.

• (planet, metal): sol
• (planet): Phebus

• English: sun
• Scots: sun
• Yola: zin

• “sonne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2018.

sonne

1. alternative form of sone (“son”)

From Old Saxon sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

sonne f

1. sun

• Low German: Sünn