Sonn

Borrowed from German Sonn.

Sonn (plural Sonns)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sonn is the 41579^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 523 individuals. Sonn is most common among White (72.47%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (16.83%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sonn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /zon/ (etymologies may be distinguished by tone)

From Middle High German sunne.

Sonn f (plural Sonne, diminutive Sönnche or Sennche)

1. (most dialects) sun
   • 1997, “Dat Hätz vun d’r Welt (Remake)”‎^[1]performed by De Höhner:

     Dat Hätz vun der Welt, jo dat es Kölle.
     Dat Hätz vun der Welt, dat steiht am Rhing.
     Es och der Himmel öfters jrau un et Sönnche schingk jet mau,
     Doch die Kölsche hann em Hätze Sonnesching.

     The heart of the world, yeah that’s Cologne.
     The heart of the world stands on the Rhine.
     May the sky be often grey and the sun shine rather poorly,
     But Colognians have sunshine in their hearts.

• Hunsrik: Sunn, Sonn
• Luxembourgish: Sonn

From Old High German sun.

Sonn m (plural Sönn or Senn, diminutive Sönnche or Sennche)

1. (most dialects) son

   Synonym: (more common) Jong

   • 1974, “Rof mer ens e Taxi”‎^[2]performed by Bläck Fööss:

     Op dä Kinddäuf vun däm Mattes singem Sonn
     Kunnt ich mingen Onkel Schäng nit mieh verstonn.
     Denn dä Onkel Schäng, dä danzte wie noch nie.
     Doch op eimol däten däm de Föß jet wieh.

     At the baptism party for Matthew’s son
     I couldn’t understand my Uncle John.
     Because Uncle John danced like never before,
     But at some point his feet started to hurt.

• Sunn (rarer variant)

• Luxembourgish: Sonn

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Sonn f (genitive Sonn, plural Sonnen)

1. (poetic) apocopic form of Sonne
   • 1827, Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs]‎^[3], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:

     Warum scheint denn die Sonn auf die Au / So kalt und verdrießlich herab?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: Sonn

Sonn f (plural Sonne)

1. alternative form of Sunn

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Sonn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 152, column 2

Sonn f

1. Eupen spelling of Ṣon

Sonn f (plural Sonne, diminutive Sönnke)

1. Eupen spelling of Ṣon

• IPA^(key): /zon/
• Rhymes: -on

From Central Franconian Sonn, from Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from *sunnô, from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. Cognate with German Sonne, Dutch zon, English sun, Icelandic sunna.

Sonn f (plural Sonnen)

1. sun

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sun, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz. Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Sonn m (plural Sënn)

1. (archaic) son

   Synonyms: Fils, Jong, Bouf

Sonn f (plural Sonnen)

1. sun

• Mon (moon)
• Dach (day)
• Wäakj (week)
• Moonat (month)
• Joa (year)

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