![]() From the Greek helios comes the rare adjective heliac ( / ˈ h iː l i æ k/). The principal adjectives for the Sun in English are sunny for sunlight and, in technical contexts, solar ( / ˈ s oʊ l ər/), from Latin sol – the latter found in terms such as solar day, solar eclipse and Solar System (occasionally Sol system). Indeed, the l-stem survived in Proto-Germanic as well, as * sōwelan, which gave rise to Gothic sauil (alongside sunnō) and Old Norse prosaic sól (alongside poetic sunna), and through it the words for sun in the modern Scandinavian languages: Swedish and Danish solen, Icelandic sólin, etc. ![]() ![]() This is ultimately related to the word for sun in other branches of the Indo-European language family, though in most cases a nominative stem with an l is found, rather than the genitive stem in n, as for example in Latin sōl, ancient Greek ἥλιος ( hēlios), Welsh haul and Russian солнце ( solntse pronounced sontse), as well as (with *l > r) Sanskrit स्वर ( svár) and Persian خور ( xvar). All these words stem from Proto-Germanic * sunnōn. Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. The English word sun developed from Old English sunne.
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