Sun Dutch "zon", Old High German "sunna", modern German "Sonne", Old Norse "sunna", and Gothic "sunnō". All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic *"sunnōn". The Latin name for the Sun, "Sol", is used at times as another name for the Sun, but is not commonly used in everyday English. "Sol" is also used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on another planet, such as Mars. The related word "solar" is the usual adjectival term used for the Sun, in terms such as solar day, solar eclipse, and Solar System. A mean Earth solar
Yes and no not conjugated according to the person and plurality of the verb. "Ei", however, is always conjugated and means "no". Up until the 16th century Latvian also didn't have a word for "yes" and the common way of responding affirmatively to a question was by repeating the question's verb, just like in Finnish. The modern day "jā" was borrowed from Middle High German "ja" and first appeared in 16th-century religious texts, especially catechisms, in answers to questions about faith. At that time such works were usually translated from German by non-Latvians that had learned Latvian as a foreign language. By the