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niht

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Middle English

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Noun

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niht

  1. alternative form of nyght

Old English

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FWOTD – 4 May 2018

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *nahti, inflected form of *naht,[1] from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts;[2] 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

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Noun

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niht f

  1. night[3]
    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.
    • Wonders of the East
      Þǣr syndan .II. sēaðas, ōðer sunnan ⁊ ōðer mōnan. Sē ðe sunnan is sē byð dæġes hāt ⁊ nihtes ċeald, ⁊ sē ðe mōnan is sē bið neahtes hāt ⁊ dæġes cald.
      There are two lakes there, one of the sun and the other of the moon. The one of the sun is hot during the day and cold at night, and the one of the moon is hot at night and cold during the day.
  2. day (when computing spans of time)
    for tīen nihtum
    ten days ago

Declension

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Strong consonant stem:

singular plural
nominative niht niht
accusative niht niht
genitive niht, nihtes nihta
dative niht, nihte nihtum

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240
  2. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963) [1934], “niht, neaht f.”, in Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →OCLC, page 236.
  3. ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “niht”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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