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Middle English
Noun
niht
- Alternative form of nyght
Old English
Etymology
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
Noun
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
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