English word night comes from Hittite e-grade, Old English *nōht, and later Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (Night (or possibly 'evening').)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| e-grade | Hittite (hit) | |
| *nōht | Old English (ang) | |
| *nókʷts | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | Night (or possibly 'evening'). |
| *nahts | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Night. |
| niht | Old English (ang) | Darkness.. Day, when computing spans of time.. Night, particularly:. The time between sunset and sundown. |
| noght | Middle English (enm) | Not. |
| night | English (en) | Short for good night (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.. (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.. (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.. (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.. [...] |