Where does “sounen” come from?

sounen (Middle English) comes from Old French soner, from Latin sonāre, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

Ancestry of “sounen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsonerto sound
2Latinsonāre—
3Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
4Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
5Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound

Words derived from “sounen”

Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Latin sonus →