sunnudagr
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- sunundægi
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis. Compare Old Saxon sunnundag, Old High German sunnuntag, Old Frisian sunnandei, Old English sunnandæg.
Noun
sunnudagr m
- Sunday
Descendants
- Icelandic: sunnudagur
- Faroese: sunnudagur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sundag
- Westrobothnian: sånda
- Old Swedish: sunnodagher, synnodagher
- Swedish: söndag
- Danish: søndag
- Norwegian Bokmål: søndag
- Gutnish: sundag, sundagar, sunde, sund'
- → Finnish: sunnuntai
See also
(days of the week) dagar í vikunni; sunnudagr, mánadagr/mánudagr, týsdagr, óðinsdagr, þórsdagr, frjádagr, laugardagr (Category: non:Days of the week)
References
- “sunnudagr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press