niht
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]niht
- Alternative form of nyght
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *nahti, inflected form of *naht,[1] from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (the alternative forms næht, neaht directly continue Proto-West Germanic *naht).
Cognate with Old Frisian nacht, Old Saxon naht, Old High German naht, Old Norse nátt, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts); also with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Latin nox, Russian ночь (nočʹ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]niht f
- night[2]
- On niht biþ sēo ēa ġīet wlitiġre þonne on dæġ.
- The river is even more beautiful at night than in the daytime.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
- Sēo niht hæfþ seofon dǣlas fram þǣre sunnan setlunge oþ hire upgang.
- The night has seven phases from sunset to sunrise.
- day (when computing spans of time)
- for tīen nihtum
- ten days ago
Declension
[edit]Strong consonant stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | niht | niht |
accusative | niht | niht |
genitive | niht, nihtes | nihta |
dative | niht, nihte | nihtum |
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- efnniht
- frīġeniht
- mæsseniht
- middelniht
- midniht
- mōnanniht
- nihtbealu
- nihtbuttorflēoge
- -nihte
- nihteald
- nihtegale
- nihterne
- nihtes
- nihteġesa
- nihtfeormung
- nihtgenġa
- nihtgenġe
- nihtglōm
- nihthelm
- nihthræfn
- nihthrōc
- nihtlang
- nihtlanges
- nihtlīċ
- *nihtmare
- nihtnihstiġ
- nihtrest
- nihtrīm
- nihtsang
- nihtscūa
- nihtslǣp
- nihtsċada
- nihtwacu
- nihtwaru
- nihtweard
- nihtġerīm
- nihtġield
- nihtīeġe
- sæternniht
- sinnihte
- sunnanniht
- tīwesniht
- þunresniht
- wōdnesniht
- ēasterniht
- ġiestranniht
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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