sounere
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- A person who plays a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
Etymology
Affix from Middle English sounen derived from Old French soner derived from Latin sonāre (make sound, make a sound).
Origin
Latin
sonāre
Gloss
make sound, make a sound
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sono, sonō, sonāre Latin
- sonāre Latin
- sonata Italian
- suonare Italian
- sonner French
- *swen- Proto-Indo-European
- *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- sounen Middle English
- soner Old French
- suna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sonner Norman
- sõar Old Portuguese
- sunâ Friulian
- sonar Old Occitan
- sonar Old Spanish
- sunari Sicilian
- sonar Venetian
- sunâ Ligurian
- sonur Dalmatian
- sunnà Neapolitan