nihtwæcce
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, niht (“night”) + wæċċe (“watch”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nihtwæċċe f
Declension
[edit]Weak feminine (n-stem):
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | nihtwæċċe | nihtwæċċan |
accusative | nihtwæċċan | nihtwæċċan |
genitive | nihtwæċċan | nihtwæċċena |
dative | nihtwæċċan | nihtwæċċum |
Descendants
[edit]- English: night watch
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht-wæcce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.