Etymologically

500s · Old English

English words first recorded in the 6th century

1 English word whose earliest known written record dates from the 6th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. Sunday

    600–699

    It is inherited from Middle English sondai, also sonnedai, sunedai and sunnendai, inherited from Old English sunnandæg, Northumbrian sunnadæg, made up of sunnan, the genitive or oblique case of…

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