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 be confused with the archaic term ""ay"" (pronounced , as in "hay"), which is used poetically to mean "for ever" or "eternally". It is also sometimes also spelled "aye"; the spelling of "aye" and "ay" for the two meanings "yes" or "for ever" varies according to different authorities, and may be interchangeable in common usage. Yes and no Yes and no, or word pairs with a similar usage, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages including English. Some languages make a distinction between answers to affirmative versus negative questions, thus they may have triplets or