Where does “sunari” come from?

sunari (Sicilian) comes from Latin sonāre, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

sunari (Sicilian): to play; to sound; to ring

Definitions

  1. to play; to sound; to ring

Ancestry of “sunari”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsonāre—
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 →