Etymology

sunstroke

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Today it means: Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays. Full definition →

English stroke ← Middle English sonne ← Old English sunne
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sóh₂wl̥
  2. Proto-Germanic*sunnô
  3. Proto-Germanic*sunnǭ
  4. Proto-West Germanic*sunnā
  5. Old Englishsunne
  6. Middle Englishsonne
  7. Englishsun
  8. Englishstroke
  9. English todaysunstroke

From sun + stroke.

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