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Short answer: It's adapted from earlier terms in old english.

The English proper noun sun developed from Old English sunne, and may be related to south. Cognates to English sun appear in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunne, sonne ("sun"), Old Saxon sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, modern Dutch zon, Old High German sunna, modern German sonne, Old Icelandic sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic sunnōn.

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