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 der Gabelentz, Henry Sweet, and Philipp Wegener have all written on the subject of sentence words. Both Sweet and Wegener include "yes" and "no" in this category, with Sweet treating them separately from both imperatives and interjections, although Gabelentz does not. Watts classifies "yes" and "no" as grammatical particles, in particular "response particles". He also notes their relationship to the interjections "oh" and "ah", which is that the interjections can precede "yes" and "no" but not follow them. "Oh" as an interjection expresses surprise, but in the combined forms "oh yes" and "oh no" merely acts as an intensifier; but