Where does “sundown” come from?

Sundown comes from English sun and down, where down derives from Old English dūn, Proto-Celtic dūnom, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European roots related to height and position.

sundown (English): Sunset; A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes...

Definitions

  1. Sunset; A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes...

Ancestry of “sundown”, step by step

sundown traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Sun

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSunAbbreviation of Sunday
2Middle EnglishsunneAlternative form of sonne; sun
3Old Englishsunnesun
4Proto-West Germanicsunnāsun
5Proto-Germanicsunnǭthe sun
6Proto-Indo-Europeansh̥₂uénsun; the Sun
7Proto-Indo-Europeansóh₂wl̥sun

via English Down

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishDownusually known as County Down
2Middle Englishdoundown
3Old Norsedúnndown, down feather
4Proto-GermanicdūnazAlternative form of *dūnǭ; down

Words derived from “sundown”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sóh₂wl̥ →