Noun: sunnandæg
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | sunnandæġ |
| Plural | sunnandagas |
Genitive
| Singular | sunnandæġes |
| Plural | sunnandaga |
Dative
| Singular | sunnandæġe |
| Plural | sunnandagum |
Accusative
| Singular | sunnandæġ |
| Plural | sunnandagas |
Sample Sentences
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Sēo tīd onginð on ðisum Sunnandæġe, nigon wucon ǣr Ēastron, and ġeendað on ðām Saternesdæġe þǣre Ēasterlīċan wucan: tō ðām dæġe sind heonon ġetealde hundseofontiġ daga; and þæt Israhela folc, for heora māndǣdum and forgǣġednyssum, wurdon ġehergode, and hundseofontiġ ġēara on Babilonisċum þēowdōme, buton blisse and myrhðe, wunodon. (This period begins this Sunday, nine weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday in the week of Easter: to that day, from here, are seventy days; and the Israelites, for their evil deeds and transgressions, were taken captive, and spent seventy years living in slavery to the Bablyonians, without joy or mirth.)
Nouns inflected like sunnandæg
middes wintres dæg,
sæternesdæg,
mæssedæg,
þunresdæg,
ræstedæg,
endedæg,
þursdæg,
ymbrendæg,
sæteresdæg,
dæg,
weorcdæg,
swyltdæg,
sunnandæg,
morgendæg,
middes wintres mæssedæg,
winterdæg,
wintres dæg,
restendæg,
wicdæg,
plæg, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, a calque of Latin dies Solis. Cognate with Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Old High German sunnuntag, Old Norse sunnudagr. Equivalent to sunnan (“the sun's”) + dæġ (“day”). See: Latin Nouns '
dies Solis', Old Norse Nouns '
sunnudagr'.
Verbs referencing "sunnandæg"
Middle English Nouns
Sonday.
Translations