nihtes
Old English
Etymology
The genitive of niht, equivalent to niht + -es. Cognate with Old Frisian nachtes, Old Saxon nahtes, Old High German nahtes (German nachts).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnihtes/, [ˈniçtes]
Adverb
nihtes
- at night, by night, nights
- late 10th century, Ælfric, St. Benedict, Abbot
- Hwæt cwiþst þū, sweostor? Ne mæġ iċ nāteshwōn būtan mynstre nihtes wunian.
- What are you saying, sister? There's no way I can stay outside the monastery at night.
- Hwæt cwiþst þū, sweostor? Ne mæġ iċ nāteshwōn būtan mynstre nihtes wunian.
- late 10th century, Ælfric, St. Benedict, Abbot
- (with dæġes) Continuously.
References
- nihtes in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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