nótt
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Icelandic [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse nǫ́tt, nótt, nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Latin nox.
Noun [edit]
nótt f (genitive singular nætur, plural nætur)
- night
- Ég vakti fram á nótt.
- I stayed awake until late at night.
- Ég vakti fram á nótt.
Declension [edit]
declension of nótt
The original stem is nátt- (<*naht-), preserved in the genitive plural (although the forms nótta, nóttanna now also exist) and in all stem compounds (e.g. nátthrafn). The -ó- comes from earlier -ǫ́-, created by u-mutation of -á-, a vowel change that is no longer productive.
Antonyms [edit]
- (night): dagur
Synonyms [edit]
- (night): njóla (poetic)