nihtgenga
Old English
Etymology
niht (“night”) + *genġa (“walker”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnixtˌɡen.jɑ/, [ˈniçtˌɡen.d͡ʒɑ]
Noun
nihtgenġa m
- an evil being active at night
Declension
Weak:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nihtgenġa | nihtgenġan |
| accusative | nihtgenġan | nihtgenġan |
| genitive | nihtgenġan | nihtgenġena |
| dative | nihtgenġan | nihtgenġum |
Derived terms
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “nihtgenga”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht-genga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.