Etymology

sunny

sun·ny
S1U1N1N1Y4

Today it means: Featuring a lot of sunshine. Full definition →

Middle English sunni ← Old English *sunniġ
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited from*sunniġ
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsunni
  3. English todaysunny

From Middle English sunni, from Old English *sunniġ. Cognate with West Frisian sinnich, Low German sünnig, sonnig, Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Equivalent to sun + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.