FromProto-Italic*sent, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁sénti.
sunt
- third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofsum
Mārcus et Lūciussunt nautae.- Marcus and Luciusare sailors.
Sunt iuvenēs.- They are young.
Sunt silvae in prōvinciā.- There are forests in the province.
FromMiddle Englishsounden, fromOld Frenchsonder, fromsonde(“sounding line”) ofGermanic origin, ultimately fromProto-Germanic*sundą.
sunt (verbal nounsuntalorsunteil,past participlesuntit)
- (nautical) tosound,fathom,chart by sounding
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
sunt
- neutersingular ofsunn
sunt
- neutersingular ofsunn
sunt
- (Anglo-Norman)third-personpluralpresentindicative ofestre
sunt
- alternative spelling ofsund
FromLatinsum(“I am”) andsunt(“they are”). For sense 1, compareRomanshsunt, sont(“I am”) (attested in Reams, Zuoz, Bivio, Sils),Lombardsonto(“I am”) andEmiliansonto(“I am”) (attested inLegenda di San Petronio, 15th century, Bologna).
sunt
- first-personsingularpresentindicative offi
Sunt un bărbat.- I'm a man.
Sunt un băiat de șapte ani.- I'm a seven-year-old boy. (literally,I'm a boy of seven years.)
- third-personpluralpresentindicative offi
Eisunt bărbați.- Theyare men.
- This word was spelledsînt until the 1993 spelling reform (which also changedsîntem tosuntem andsînteți tosunteți). Indeed, thesînt spelling remains common in Moldova and is still used by some in Romania (especially among the older generation). It was also spelledsânt before the 1953 spelling reform.
FromOld Frisiansend, fromProto-West Germanic*sindi, fromProto-Germanic*sindi. Cognates includeNorth Frisiansan andGermansind.
- IPA(key): /sʊnt/
- Hyphenation:sunt
sunt
- pluralindicativepresent ofweze
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “weze”, inSaterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske,→ISBN
sunt
- indefiniteneutersingular ofsund
