different between sunne vs drip

English

Noun

sunne (plural sunnes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sun

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna. Cognate with German Sonne, English sun.

Noun

sunne

1. (Sappada) sun

References

• “sunne” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Middle English

Noun

sunne

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German sunna.

Noun

sunne f

1. sun

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Sunnä

  Italian Walser: sunna, sunnu, sònnò, ?chunna, ?chunnà

• Bavarian: Son

  Cimbrian: sunn, sonde, zunna

  Mòcheno: sunn

  Udinese: suna, sune, sunne

  Viennese: Sun

• Central Franconian: Sonn
• German: Sonne
• Luxembourgish: Sonn
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: Sunn

  Pennsylvania German: Sunn

• Vilamovian: zunn, zun
• Yiddish: ???? (zun)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sunne

1. definite singular of sunn
2. plural of sunn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sunne

1. definite singular of sunn
2. plural of sunn

Old English

Alternative forms

• sunna, sunnu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Indo-European *sh??uén-, oblique stem of *sóh?wl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sun.ne/

Noun

sunne f

1. sun

Declension

Derived terms

Synonyms

• s?l
• swe?el, swe?l
• si?el

Descendants

• Middle English: sonne, sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, zonne, zunne, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen
  • English: sun
  • Scots: sun
  • Yola: zin

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?.

Noun

sunne f

1. sun

Descendants

• North Frisian: san
• Saterland Frisian: Sunne
• West Frisian: sinne

Old High German

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sunne f

1. legal obligation

Declension

O-stem

References

1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Derived terms

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

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