Sonntag

Meaning

Noun

Sunday (the first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard)

Name

1. (neuter,proper-noun) A municipality of Vorarlberg, Austria
2. (historical,neuter,proper-noun) Zyndaki (a village in Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈzɔntaːk/

Etymology

From Middle High German sunne(n)tac, sun(n)tac, from Old High German sunnūntag (9th c.), from late Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag (“day of the sun”), a calque of Latin diēs Sōlis (4th c.). Compare Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, English Sunday, Danish søndag.