Esperanto · 5 October 2026
A word a day week
suno
SU-no · /ˈsuno/ · noun
- sun
English sun supplies a compact root; Esperanto makes suno, then builds sunny suna and sunlight sunlumo without irregularity.
Borrowed luggage
Where it came from
Englishsun
Esperantosuno
Suno is closely modelled on English sun, with -o marking the noun.
- English sun
Tiny sentence
La suno brilas.
the sun shine.PRS
“The sun shines.”
Brilas is the present tense of brili, ‘to shine’.
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The root later made another journey: Toki Pona borrowed its own suno from Esperanto.