sunnanmorgen

Old English

Alternative forms

  • sunnan merġen

Etymology

From sunnan (“the sun's”) + morgen (“morning”), analogous to sunnandæġ (“Sunday”, literally “the sun's day”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsun.nɑnˌmor.ɡen/, [ˈsun.nɑnˌmorˠ.ɣen]

Noun

sunnanmorgen f

  1. Sunday morning
    • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
      On sunnanmorgen hē ġewāt þā þā hē wæs on ielde ān and hundeahtatiġwintre.
      On Sunday morning he passed away at eighty-one years old.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative sunnanmorgen sunnanmorgnas
accusative sunnanmorgen sunnanmorgnas
genitive sunnanmorgnes sunnanmorgna
dative sunnanmorgne sunnanmorgnum

Descendants

  • Middle English: sunnes morn

See also

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