PHY 2390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Helium Flash, Socalled, Parsec
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Englh proper name sun developed from old englh sunne and may be related to sou. [citation needed] cognates to englh sun appear in or germanic languages, including old frian sunne, sonne, old saxon sunna, middle dutch sonne, modern dutch zon, old high german sunna, modern german sonne, Latin name for sun, sol / s l/, not used in everyday englh, ough it occasionally occurs in fiction. Sol also used by planetary astronomers to refer to duration of a solar day on planet, such as mars. [23] related word solar usual adjectival term used,[24][25] in terms such as solar day, solar eclipse, and solar system. "sun"s day", from before 700) and ultimately a result of a. Germanic interpretation of latin dies sol, itself a translation of greek . [26] principal adjectives for sun in englh are sunny and, in technical contexts, solar, from latin sol.