nihtgenga

Old English

Etymology

niht (“night”) +‎ *genġa (“walker”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnixtˌɡen.jɑ/, [ˈniçtˌɡen.d͡ʒɑ]

Noun

nihtgenġa m

1. an evil being active at night

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	nihtgenġa	nihtgenġan
accusative	nihtgenġan	nihtgenġan
genitive	nihtgenġan	nihtgenġena
dative	nihtgenġan	nihtgenġum

Derived terms

• nihtgenġe

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “nihtgenga”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht-genga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.