sunnudagr
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- sunundægi (possibly from Old English sunnandæg)
Etymology
From Old Saxon sunnundag, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis.
Noun
sunnudagr m
Descendants
- Icelandic: sunnudagur
- Faroese: sunnudagur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sundag; syndag (dialectal)
- 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 (appendix): mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr · sunnudagr [edit]
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sunnudagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive