nyght

From Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• naht, night, nighte, niȝt, niht, nyghte, nyȝt, nyȝte, nyhte

• IPA^(key): /nixt/, [niçt]
• (dialectal or Late ME) IPA^(key): /niːt/
• Rhymes: -ixt

nyght (plural nyghtes or nyght or nyghte)

1. night
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:

     And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye

     And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.

• English: night, nite (informal spelling), neet (Yorkshire, archaic)
  • Cameroon Pidgin: nét, náyt
  • Guyanese Creole English: nɛt, nait
  • Jamaican Creole: nait
  • Krio: nɛt
  • Maroon Spirit Language: net
  • Pichinglis: net, nait
  • Pijin: naet
  • Sranan Tongo: neti
    • Aukan: neti
    • Saramaccan: ndéti
  • Tok Pisin: nait
  • → Korean: 나이트 (naiteu)
• Geordie: neet
• Scots: nicht, neicht
• Yola: neeght, nieght, nyeght

• “night, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From nighte (noun).

nyght

1. alternative form of nyghten