Greek question (night?)

[Max W Wheeler]

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

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

Not actually Modern French where <nuit> is [nh<invert>i]. Add MGk
/nixta/ (or is only word-final -t sought?).

According to Morris Jones, Welsh _nos_ is from *noss from the nominative
*not-s < *nok{w}t-s; the oblique stem is seen in (tra-)noeth `the next
day', OWelsh henoid [-<theta>] `tonight'. NB in _nos da_ `goodnight' we
seem to have radical /d-/ preserved after /-s/, instead of lenited as is
normal after a feminine noun.

Max
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