nihterne
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English nihterne. Equivalent to nyght + -erne.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]nihterne
- (hapax, Early Middle English) Of or by the night.
References
[edit]- “nighterne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, niht (“night”) + -erne
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nihterne
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: nihterne
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nihterne”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Categories:
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms suffixed with -erne
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English adverbs
- Middle English hapax legomena
- Early Middle English
- enm:Night
- Old English terms suffixed with -erne
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English adjectives
- ang:Night