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sāwel-
The sun. Oldest form *seh2wel‑, colored to *sah2wel‑, becoming *sāwel‑, with zero-grade *s(u)wel‑. The element *-el‑ was originally suffixal, and alternated with *-en‑, yielding the variant zero-grades *s(u)wen‑ and (reduced) *sun‑.
Derivatives include Sunday, south, solar, and helium.- Variant forms *swen‑, *sun‑.
- sun, from Old English sunne, sun;
- sundew, from Middle Dutch sonne, sun. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *sunnōn‑.
- Sunday, from Old English sunnandæg, Sunday, from Germanic compound *sunnōn-dagaz, "day of the sun" (translation of Latin diēs sōlis);
- south, southern, from Old English sūth, south, and sūtherne, southern, from Germanic derivative *sunthaz, "sun-side," south.
- Variant form *s(ə)wōl‑. sol3, Sol, solar, solarium; girasol, insolate, parasol, solanaceous, solanine, solstice, turnsole, from Latin sōl, the sun.
- Suffixed form *sāwel-yo‑. heliacal, helio-, helium; anthelion, aphelion, isohel, parhelion, perihelion, from Greek hēlios, sun.
[Pokorny sāwel‑ 881.] |
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