English
nighted
Nighted comes from English night ‘noun sense’.
- English1500–presentnight‘noun sense’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602nighted
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- English1500–presentnight‘noun sense’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602nighted
Earliest quotation: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: “Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off.”
A compound of night ‘noun sense’ + -ed
Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts ‘night’
Proto-Germanic *nahts ‘night’
Proto-West Germanic *naht ‘night’
Old English niht ‘night’
Middle English nighte
English night
Every English word from English night
Today it means
adj Dark; clouded.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English night / nighted