Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/nókʷts

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Noun

*nókʷts f

1. night

Declension

Declension of *nókʷts

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*nókʷts	*nókʷth₁e	*nókʷtes
Vocative	*nókʷt	*nókʷth₁e	*nókʷtes
Accusative	*nókʷtm̥	*nókʷth₁e	*nókʷtn̥s
Instrumental	*nékʷt(e)h₁	?	*nékʷtbʰi
Dative	*nékʷtey	?	*nékʷtm̥os
Ablative	*nékʷts	?	*nékʷtm̥os
Genitive	*nékʷts	?	*nékʷtoHom
Locative	*nékʷt(i)	?	*nékʷtsu

Descendants

• Albanian: natë
• Anatolian:
  • Hittite: 𒉈𒆪𒍖 (nekuz) (gen. sg.) "at night"
• Baltic:
  • Latvian: nakts
  • Lithuanian: naktis
  • Old Prussian: naktin (acc. sg.)
• Celtic: *noxs (stem *noxt-)
  • Gaulish: nox
  • Old Irish: innocht (“tonight”)
    • Irish: anocht
    • Manx: noght
    • Scottish Gaelic: a-nochd
  • Middle Breton: hanoez (“tonight”)
    • Breton: henozh
  • Cornish: haneth (“tonight”)
  • Old Welsh: henoid (“tonight”)
    • Middle Welsh: peunoeth (“every night”)
      • Welsh: heno (“tonight”), trannoeth (“overnight, tomorrow”)
• Germanic: *nahts
• Greek:
  • Ancient Greek: νύξ (nuks)
    • Greek: νύχτα (nýchta)
• Indo-Iranian: *nakt-
  • Iranian:
    • Avestan: 𐬎𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬀𐬑𐬙𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬱𐬎 (upa.naxturušu) ("bordering on the night") (locative plural)
    • Kurdish: nixte (rainy or cloudy weather, id. when the Sun doesn't shine)
    • Wakhi: naγd, naghd
  • Indic:
    • Sanskrit: नक्ति (nákti), नक्त (nákta)
      • Telugu: నక్తము (naktamu)
• Italic:
  • Latin: nox
    • Aromanian: noapte
    • Asturian: nueche
    • Campidanese Sardinian: noti
    • Catalan: nit
    • Dalmatian: nuat
    • Esperanto: nokto
    • French: nuit
    • Galician: noite
    • Ido: nokto
    • Interlingua: nocte
    • Istriot: nuoto, noto
    • Italian: notte
    • Logudorese Sardinian: note
    • Occitan: nuèit
    • Portuguese: noite
    • Romanian: noapte
    • Romansch: not
    • Sicilian: notti
    • Spanish: noche
• Slavic: *noťь
• Tocharian: *nokʷteujos "last night, during the night"
  • Tocharian A: nakcu
  • Tocharian B: nekcīye