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niht

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
niht, næht, næct, neaht, neht, nyht, e; f.: but also with gen. es.
Wright's OE grammar
§68; §411;
night (as opposed to day)
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  • Niht is gesett mannum tó reste on ðysum middanearde ... Úre eorþlíce niht (nyht, MS. M.) cymþ þurh ðære eorþan sceade... Seó niht hæfþ seofan dǽlas fram ðære sunnan settlunge óþ hire upgang. Án ðæra dǽla is crepusculum, óðer is vesperum, þridde is conticinium, feórþa is intempestum, ðæt is midniht, fífta is gallicinium, syxta is matutinum vel aurora, seofoþa is diluculum,

    • Lchdm. iii. 240, 10-244, 5.

  • Hé hine micelre tíde ðære deáhlan neahte swong,

    • Bd. 2, 6
      • ;
    • S. 508, 13.

  • Scínaþ þurh ða scíran neaht,

    • Met. 20, 229.

  • Niht (næht, Lind. Rush.) cymþ ðonne nán man wyrcan ne mæg,

    • Jn. Skt. 9, 4 : 13, 30.

  • Fira bearnum neálǽhte niht seó þýstre,

    • Judth. Thw. 21, 25
      • ;
    • Jud. 34.

  • Hé com tó him ánes nihtes,

    • Shrn. 16, 27.

  • Næs nǽnig man ðe ǽfre nihtes tídum dorste on ðære ciricean cuman,

    • Blickl. Homl. 207, 34.

  • Wacana næhtes

    vigilia noctis,

    • Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 2, 8 : Mt. Kmbl. Lind. Rush. 14, 25.

  • Swá swá se beorhta dæg tódrǽfþ ða dimlícan þeóstru ðære sweartan nihte,

    • Homl.Th. i. 604, 2.

  • On dæge and ná on nihte,

    • 36, 28.

  • Hé fealh ðære ilcan niht of ðǽm bendum,

    • Ors. 5, 11
      • ;
    • Swt. 236, 12 : Bd. 1, 33
      • ;
    • S. 499. 9 : Blickl. Homl. 215, 15.

  • Tó niht

    hac nocte,

    • Num. 22, 19.

  • On næht

    nocte,

    • Ps. Surt. 16, 3.

  • On niht ǽr hé ræste,

    • Blickl. Homl. 47, 18.

  • Feówurtig daga and feówurtig nihta (Lind. næhta),

    • Mt. Kmbl. 4, 2.

  • Þreó niht and dagas,

    • Cd. Th. 20, 12
      • ;
    • Gen. 307.

  • Dagum and nihtum,

    • Met. 20, 213.
night, darkness (as opposed to light)
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  • Seó swearte niht ðære écan geniþerunge,

    • Homl. Th. i. 530, 23.

  • Dryhten ðe ús of duste geworhte, nergend of nihtes sunde,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 675
      • ;
    • Sal. 337.
night (as in se'n-night, fort-night; cf. Tacitus' Germania, c. xi : 'Instead of reckoning by days as we do, they reckon by nights')
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  • Be ánre nihtes (MS. B. nihte) þiéfþe,

    • L. In. 73
      • ;
    • Th. i. 148, 11.

  • Hé fór ymb áne niht tó Ígleá, and ðæs ymb áne tó Éþandúne ... and ðǽr sæt xiiii niht ... and hé was xii niht mid ðam cyninge,

    • Chr. 878
      • ;
    • Erl. 80, 12-24.

  • Embe seofon niht,

    • Blickl. Homl. 45, 31.

  • Emb tén niht,

    • 117, 16.

  • On twám nihtum biþ mannes sunu geseald on synfulra hand,

    • 73, 1.

  • For tén nihtum

    ten days ago,

    • 131, 10.

  • Mid ðon dæge wæs gefylled se dæg ðe is nemned Pentecosten ymb fíftig nihta æfter ðære gecýþdan ǽriste,

    • 133, 14.
Etymology
[
Goth. nahts
:
O. Sax. naht
:
O. Frs. nacht
:
Icel. nátt, nótt
:
O. H. Ger. naht.
]
Similar entries
v. Eáster-, efen- (emn-, em-), Frige-, mæsse-, mid-, middel-, mónan-, sæter-, sin-, sunnan-, þunres-, Tíwes-, Wódnes-niht; nihtes.
Linked entries
v.  næct neaht niht-hwíl un-gecýd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “niht.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/23718.

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