Where does “soun” come from?

soun (Scots) comes from Old French soun, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

soun (Scots): sound; noise; to sound

Definitions

  1. sound; noise; to sound

Ancestry of “soun”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsounhis/her/one's/its; sound; noise; tune; song
2Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
3Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
4Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound
Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Latin sonus →