8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun the rays of the sun
originFrom Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0