The English word sun developed from Old English sunne.Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō.All these words stem from Proto-Germanic *sunnōn. [17] [18] This is ultimately related to the word for sun in other branches of the Indo-European language family ...