# sonne
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

sonne (plural sonnes)
* 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.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sonne (plural sonnes)
* Obsolete spelling of sun.

### Anagrams

* Nones, neons, nones, onsen

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔn

### Verb

sonne
* inflection of sonner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔnə/
* Homophone: Sonne

### Etymology 1

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender-unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

#### Alternative forms

* so'ne, sone

#### Pronoun

sonne
* (colloquial) Contraction of so eine (“such a”). (so, ein)
* Ungrammatical synonym of solch in plural.
    Wer macht denn sonne Sachen?Who would do such things?

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sonne
* inflection of sonnen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

### Noun

sonne f
* sun
* sunshine, sunlight

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Alternative forms

* sunne

#### Derived terms

* dobbelsonne
* sonnelijc
* sonnen
* sonnenavont
* sonnenboom
* sonnendach
* sonnenjaer
* sonnenlicht
* sonnenonderganc
* sonnenopgaen
* sonnenopganc
* sonnenrinc
* sonnenscheme
* sonnenschijn
* sonnenstrael
* sonnentoeganc
* sonnenwaert

#### Descendants

* Dutch: zon
** 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

### Further reading

* “sonne”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sonne”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

#### Alternative forms

* sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen
* zunne (Southern West Mid)
* zonne (Kent)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsun(ə)/

#### Noun

sonne (plural sonnes)
* 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)
* The light and warmth that radiates from the sun; sunlight.
* (rare) A heavy, yellow metal; gold.

##### Synonyms

* (planet, metal): sol
* (planet): Phebus

##### Derived terms

* sonne side
* sonnebeem
* sonnliche
* sonnyssh
* sunni
* under þe sonne
* yong sonne

##### Descendants

* English: sun
* Scots: sun
* Yola: zin

##### References

* “sonne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2018.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sonne
* Alternative form of sone (“son”)