Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sōl

Etymology
Ultimately from ~, though how and as what inflection type is uncertain. and point to  and, respectively, which perhaps suggests an inherited l/n-stem paradigm  (< ) ~  (or consonant stem ), with the Gothic leveled from the weak case.

Alternatively reconstructed as, from , and although this would account for the Gothic form, is problematic for the West Germanic and Old Norse forms, where one might expect the outcome in Old Saxon to be , , compare , from.

Noun

 * 1) sun, the Sun
 * 2)  name of the S-rune (ᛊ)