Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/noxs

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Noun

*noxs f

night

Declension

Masculine/feminine consonant stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*noxs	*noxte	*noxtes
vocative	*noxs	*noxte	*noxtes
accusative	*noxtam	*noxte	*noxtās
genitive	*noxtos	*noxtou	*noxtom
dative	*noxtē	*noxtobom	*noxtobos
instrumental	*noxte?	*noxtobim	*noxtobis

Descendants

Brythonic:
- Middle Breton: hanoez (“tonight”)
  - Breton: henoazh
- Cornish: haneth (“tonight”)
- Old Welsh: henoid (“tonight”)
  - Middle Welsh: peunoeth (“every night”), mein(i)oeth ‘midnight’
    - Welsh: heno (“tonight”), trannoeth (“overnight, tomorrow”)
Old Irish: nocht, innocht (“tonight”)
- Irish: anocht
- Manx: noght
- Scottish Gaelic: a-nochd
Gaulish: nox

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