Sunna
Old Norse Dictionary - sunnaMeaning of Old Norse word "sunna" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- sunna
- u, f. [Ulf. sunna (masc.); A. S. sunne; Engl. sun; O. H. G. sunna; but in the Scandin. languages the proper word is sól, sunna being only used in poets]:—the sun; sól heitir með mönnum, en sunna með goðum, it is called ‘sól’ among men, ‘sun’ among the gods, Alm.; sunna heitir sól, ok er við hana kenndr Dróttins-dagr, Rb. 112; réttlætis-sunna, Geisli: kaf-S., mars S., the sun of the deep, i. e. gold; sunnu skeið, ‘sun-space,’ i. e. the heavens, Lex. Poët.: sunna is also found in the compds, Sunnu-dagr, m. Sunday, which word the Northmen prob. borrowed from the Saxon (see the remarks S. v. fimt and dagr), passim: in local names, in Sunnu-dalr in southern Icel., Landn.; but that name may stand for Sunndalr = Southdale, cp. Sundal in Sweden. Sunnu-nótt, f. Sunday night, n. G. l.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᚾᚾᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.
- compare.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- masc.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- prob.
- probably.
- S.
- Saga.
- Scandin.
- Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Alm.
- Alvís-mál. (A. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Rb.
- Rímbegla. (H. III.)
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