nihtgenga
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
niht (“night”) + *genġa (“walker”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nihtgenġa m
- an evil being active at night
Declension[edit]
Declension of nihtgenga (weak)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “nihtgenga”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht-genga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.