Noun: nyght
| Sg. | nyght |
| Pl. | nyghtes; nyght; nyghte |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye (And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:]
Nouns inflected like nyght
nyght,
Etymology
From Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. See: Old English Nouns '
niht'.
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