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efen-niht

  • noun [ feminineneuter ]
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Substitute: efen-niht, e; f.: -nihte (?), es; n. An equinox
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  • Emniht

    aequinoctium,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 38.

  • Gif hit wǽre rihtlíce emniht on Sc̃a Marian mæssedæge,

      Lch. iii. 256, 14.

  • Seó lenctenlice emniht (-nyhte,

    v. l.

    ), 12.
  • Seó hærfestlice emniht, 24.

  • Seó emniht byð on .xii. kl. Octobris,

      Angl. viii. 311, 26.

  • Fram þǽre emnihte þe . . . ys

    vernale

    geháten, ꝥ ys seó lengtenlice emniht,
      322, 40.

  • Þurh þæs lengtenlican emnihtes dæg, for þon se emnihtes dæg ys se feórþa dæg þissere worulde,

      310, 14: Lch. iii. 238, 17: 256, 26: 240, 5.

  • Þæs hærfestlican emnihtes ryne,

      238, 28.
  • Þæes emnihtes circul, 24: 264, 1.

  • Be efennihte (em-,

    v. l.) de aequinoctio,

      Bd. 5, 23; Sch. 698, 2.

  • Ǽr emnihte and oferswíðdum ðeóstrum,

      Lch. iii. 256, 18.
  • Be þissere emnihte, 25.

  • On lenctenlicre emnihte,

      246, 18, 22.

  • Æfter þǽre eásterlican emnihte,

      Angl. viii. 330, 7.

  • Rímcræftige on þá ylcan tíd emniht healdað,

      Men. 45.

  • Ymb þás emnihte sprecan,

      Lch. iii. 240, 1.

  • Macað heó lenctenlice emnihte,

      250, 26: 252, 2.

  • Twégen sunstedas synd and twá emniht on þám twelf mónðum,

      Angl. viii. 311, 9.

  • Hé geendebyrde þá twelf mónðas on twám emnihtum,

      299, 18.
Etymology
[O. Frs. euen-nacht: Icel. jafn-nætti; n.]
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v. em-niht
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Bosworth, Joseph. “efen-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/43771.

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