Where does “sun” come from?

sun (Romanian) comes from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

sun (Romanian): first-person singular present indicative of suna;...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of suna;...

Ancestry of “sun”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
2Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
3Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound
Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Latin sonus →