suns
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʌnz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌnz
- Homophone: sons
Gothic
Latvian

Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwṓ, *śunas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, genitive *ḱunós, *ḱunés. An older Latvian form *so is now found only in one dialect (Nīgrande) as a word to call dogs. Cognates include Lithuanian šuõ (genitive šuñs, dialectal šunis), Old Prussian sunis, Proto-Germanic *hundaz (Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds), Old Norse hundr, Icelandic hundur, Swedish hund, Old High German hunt, Old English hund, German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound), Irish cú, Welsh ci, plural cŵn, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), genitive शुनस् (śunas), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā), genitive plural 𐬯𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬨 (sunam), Old Armenian շուն (šun), Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Latin canis (Italian cane, Portuguese cão, French chien, Spanish can).[1]
Noun
suns m (2nd declension, irregular nominative)
Declension
Related terms
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN