1.Previous
3.Next

(alongside sunno) and Old Norse prosaic sól (alongside poetic sunna), and through it the words for sun in the modern Scandinavian languages: Swedish and Danish sol, Icelandic sól, etc.

The principal adjectives for the Sun in English are sunny for sunlight and, in technical contexts, solar , from Latin sol. From the Greek comes the rare adjective heliac . In English,

1.Previous
3.Next