"sunnandæg" meaning in Old English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsun.nɑnˌdæj/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis. Cognate with Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Old High German sunnuntag, Old Norse sunnudagr. Equivalent to sunnan (“the sun's”) + dæġ (“day”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*sunnōn dag}} Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, {{der|ang|la|dies Solis}} Latin dies Solis, {{cog|ofs|sunnandei}} Old Frisian sunnandei, {{cog|osx|sunnundag}} Old Saxon sunnundag, {{cog|goh|sunnuntag}} Old High German sunnuntag, {{cog|non|sunnudagr}} Old Norse sunnudagr Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=sunnandæġ|head2=|sort=}} sunnandæġ m, {{ang-noun|m|head=sunnandæġ}} sunnandæġ m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|sunnandæġ|sunnandag}}, {{ang-decl-noun|sunnandæġ|sunnandagas|sunnandæġ|sunnandagas|sunnandæġes|sunnandaga|sunnandæġe|sunnandagum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: sunnandæġ [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], sunnandæġ [nominative, singular], sunnandagas [nominative, plural], sunnandæġ [accusative, singular], sunnandagas [accusative, plural], sunnandæġes [genitive, singular], sunnandaga [genitive, plural], sunnandæġe [dative, singular], sunnandagum [dative, plural]
  1. Sunday Derived forms: Palmsunnandæġ (english: Palm Sunday), sunnanmorgen (english: Sunday morning), sunnanniht (english: Saturday night), sunnanǣfen (english: Saturday evening) Related terms: mōnandæġ, tīwesdæġ, wōdnesdæġ, þunresdæġ, frīġedæġ, sæternesdæġ, sunnandæġ
    Sense id: en-sunnandæg-ang-noun-hz~vdg5d Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Days of the week
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "Sunnenday"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: Sunnenday, Sonnenday, Sonneday, Sonenday, Sunneday, Sonday, sunnedei, zondai (Kent)\nEnglish: Sunday (see there for further descendants)\nScots: Soneday, Sunday\nYola: Zindei",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: Sunnenday, Sonnenday, Sonneday, Sonenday, Sunneday, Sonday, sunnedei, zondai (Kent)\nEnglish: Sunday (see there for further descendants)\nScots: Soneday, Sunday\nYola: Zindei"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*sunnōn dag"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "dies Solis"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin dies Solis",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "sunnandei"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian sunnandei",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "sunnundag"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon sunnundag",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "sunnuntag"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German sunnuntag",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "sunnudagr"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse sunnudagr",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis. Cognate with Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Old High German sunnuntag, Old Norse sunnudagr. Equivalent to sunnan (“the sun's”) + dæġ (“day”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandagas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandaga",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "sunnandæġe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "sunnandagum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
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        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "sunnandæġ m",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "head": "sunnandæġ"
      },
      "expansion": "sunnandæġ m",
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      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sunnandæġ",
        "2": "sunnandagas",
        "3": "sunnandæġ",
        "4": "sunnandagas",
        "5": "sunnandæġes",
        "6": "sunnandaga",
        "7": "sunnandæġe",
        "8": "sunnandagum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Days of the week",
          "orig": "ang:Days of the week",
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Palm Sunday",
          "word": "Palmsunnandæġ"
        },
        {
          "english": "Sunday morning",
          "word": "sunnanmorgen"
        },
        {
          "english": "Saturday night",
          "word": "sunnanniht"
        },
        {
          "english": "Saturday evening",
          "word": "sunnanǣfen"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "This time begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nSēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Sunday"
      ],
      "id": "en-sunnandæg-ang-noun-hz~vdg5d",
      "links": [
        [
          "Sunday",
          "Sunday"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mōnandæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "tīwesdæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "wōdnesdæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "þunresdæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "frīġedæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "sæternesdæġ"
        },
        {
          "word": "sunnandæġ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsun.nɑnˌdæj/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunnandæg"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "Palm Sunday",
      "word": "Palmsunnandæġ"
    },
    {
      "english": "Sunday morning",
      "word": "sunnanmorgen"
    },
    {
      "english": "Saturday night",
      "word": "sunnanniht"
    },
    {
      "english": "Saturday evening",
      "word": "sunnanǣfen"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "Sunnenday"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: Sunnenday, Sonnenday, Sonneday, Sonenday, Sunneday, Sonday, sunnedei, zondai (Kent)\nEnglish: Sunday (see there for further descendants)\nScots: Soneday, Sunday\nYola: Zindei",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: Sunnenday, Sonnenday, Sonneday, Sonenday, Sunneday, Sonday, sunnedei, zondai (Kent)\nEnglish: Sunday (see there for further descendants)\nScots: Soneday, Sunday\nYola: Zindei"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*sunnōn dag"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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        "3": "dies Solis"
      },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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      "expansion": "Old Saxon sunnundag",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
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      "expansion": "Old High German sunnuntag",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "sunnudagr"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse sunnudagr",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis. Cognate with Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Old High German sunnuntag, Old Norse sunnudagr. Equivalent to sunnan (“the sun's”) + dæġ (“day”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandagas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandagas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandaga",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandæġe",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunnandagum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "4": "",
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        "head": "sunnandæġ",
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      },
      "expansion": "sunnandæġ m",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "head": "sunnandæġ"
      },
      "expansion": "sunnandæġ m",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sunnandæġ",
        "2": "sunnandag"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sunnandæġ",
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        "3": "sunnandæġ",
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        "5": "sunnandæġes",
        "6": "sunnandaga",
        "7": "sunnandæġe",
        "8": "sunnandagum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
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  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mōnandæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "tīwesdæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "wōdnesdæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "þunresdæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "frīġedæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "sæternesdæġ"
    },
    {
      "word": "sunnandæġ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English terms derived from Latin",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "english": "This time begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nSēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sunday",
          "Sunday"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsun.nɑnˌdæj/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunnandæg"
}

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