Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/noxs

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Noun

*noxs f

1. night

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*noxts	*noxte	*noxtes
vocative	*noxts	*noxte	*noxtes
accusative	*noxtam	*noxte	*noxtams
genitive	*noxtos	*noxtou	*noxtom
dative	*noxtei	*noxtobom	*noxtobos
locative	*noxti	—	—
instrumental	*noxte?	*noxtobim	*noxtobis

Derived terms

• *sindainoxtē (“tonight”, literally “on this night”) (+ *sindai (“this”, dat.sg.))
  • Proto-Brythonic: *hanoɨθ
    • Middle Breton: hanoez
      • Breton: henoazh
    • Cornish: haneth
    • Old Welsh: henoid
      • Middle Welsh: heno
        • Welsh: heno
  • Old Irish: innocht
    • Irish: anocht
    • Manx: noght
    • Scottish Gaelic: a-nochd

Unsorted formations

• Middle Welsh: peunoeth (“every night”), mein(i)oeth (“midnight”)
• Welsh: trannoeth (“overnight, tomorrow”)

Descendants

Note: The Brythonic words (Welsh nos, Cornish nos, Breton noz and their ancestors) may be from this word, but they may also be loanwords from Latin nox.

• Gaulish: nox