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

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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/
• 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, 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 (Southern West Mid)
• 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.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 7-8.

     The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
     Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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