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English word night comes from Hittite e-grade, Old English *nōht, and later Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (Night (or possibly 'evening').)

e-grade (Hittite)

*nōht (Old English)

*nókʷts (Proto-Indo-European)

Night (or possibly 'evening').

*nahts (Proto-Germanic)

Night.

niht (Old English)

Darkness.. Day, when computing spans of time.. Night, particularly:. The time between sunset and sundown.

noght (Middle English)

Not.

night (English)

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.. [...]

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