niht

Middle English

Noun

niht (plural nihtes)

1. Alternative form of nighte

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Old English

FWOTD – 4 May 2018

Alternative forms

• næht, neaht, nieht, neht, nyht

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. 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

• IPA^(key): /nixt/, [niçt]

Noun

niht f

1. night

   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 hiere upgang.

     The night has seven parts from sunset to sunrise.

2. day (when computing spans of time)

   for tīen nihtum

   ten days ago

Declension

Declension of niht (strong consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	niht	niht
accusative	niht	niht
genitive	nihte	nihta
dative	nihte	nihtum

Antonyms

• dæġ

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Ēasterniht
• efenniht
• emnniht
• frīġeniht
• mæsseniht
• midniht
• middelniht
• mōnanniht
• nihtbealu
• nihtbuttorfleōge
• nihtīeġe
• nihteald
• nihteġesa
• nihtegale
• nihterne
• nihternnes
• nihtes
• nihtfeormung
• nihtgenġa
• nihtgenġe
• nihtġerīm
• nihtgild
• nihtglōm
• nihthelm
• nihthræfn
• nihthrōc
• nihtlang
• nihtlanges
• nihtlīċ
• *nihtmare

• nihtnihstiġ
• nihtrest
• nihtrīm
• nihtsang
• nihtsċada
• nihtscūa
• nihtslǣp
• nihtwacu
• nihtwaru
• nihtweard
• sæterniht
• seofonnihte
• sinniht
• sunnanniht
• þunresniht
• tīwesniht
• wōdnesniht
• ġiestranniht

Descendants

• Middle English: nighte

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.