Sun

SUN

The English proper noun Sun developed from Old English sunne (around 725, attested in Beowulf), and may be related to south. Cognates to English sunappear in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunne, sonne ("sun"),Old Saxon sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, modern Dutch zon, Old High Germansunna, modern German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic *sunnōn.

In relation, the Sun is personified as a goddess in Germanic paganism;Sól/Sunna. Scholars theorize that the Sun, as Germanic goddess, may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European sun deity due to Indo-European linguistic connections between Old Norse Sól, Sanskrit Surya, GaulishSulis, Lithuanian Saulė, and Slavic Solnitse