Greek question (night?)

[Wayles Browne]

> In which IE languages does -t appear in "night"
>besides Germanic or Modern French?

>Regards,
>Steve Long

>[ Moderator's response:
>  Greek _nuks, nuktos_, Latin _nox, noctis_, Sanskrit _nak (IIRC), naktam_,
>  Hittite _nekuz = nek{^w}t+s_, ...
>  --rma ]

Also Slavic: Russian noch', Old Church Slavonic nosht' etc. go back to Common
Slavic *nokt-.

Let me take this opportunity to thank everybody for their thoughts about my
original question about Greek nyx ~ -nykh-.

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
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