sunnudagr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• sunundægi (possibly from Old English sunnandæg)

Etymology

Compound of sunna (“sun”) +‎ dagr (“day”); from Old Saxon sunnundag, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis.

Noun

sunnudagr m

1. Sunday

Descendants

• Icelandic: sunnudagur
• Faroese: sunnudagur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sundag; syndag (dialectal)
• Old Swedish: sunnodagher, synnodagher
  • Swedish: söndag
• Danish: søndag
  • Norwegian Bokmål: søndag
• Gutnish: sundag, sundagar, sunde, sund'
• → Finnish: sunnuntai

See also

• days of the week: dagar í vikunni (appendix): mánadagr~mánudagr · týsdagr · óðinsdagr · þórsdagr · frjádagr · laugardagr · sunnudagr ^[edit]

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “sunnudagr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive