1 SUNNA
u, f. [Ulf. sunna (masc.); A. S. sunne; Engl. sun; O. H. G. sunna; but in the Scandin. languages the proper word is sól, sunna being only used in poets]:—the sun; sól heitir með mönnum, en sunna með goðum, it is called ‘sól’ among men, ‘sun’ among the gods, Alm.; sunna heitir sól, ok er við hana kenndr Dróttins-dagr, Rb. 112; réttlætis-sunna, Geisli: kaf-s., mars s., the sun of the deep, i. e. gold; sunnu skeið, ‘sun-space,’ i. e. the heavens, Lex. Poët.: sunna is also found in the compds, Sunnu-dagr, m. Sunday, which word the Northmen prob. borrowed from the Saxon (see the remarks s. v. fimt and dagr), passim: in local names, in Sunnu-dalr in southern Icel., Landn.; but that name may stand for Sunndalr = Southdale, cp. Sundal in Sweden. Sunnu-nótt, f. Sunday night, N. G. L.