Old English · noun
geolniht
Normalised ġēolniht
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong consonant stem
- IPA
- /ˈje͜oːlˌnixt/[ˈje͜oːlˌniçt]
- Syllables
- ˈje͜oːl · ˌnixt (2 syllables)
Meaning
-
the night before Christmas
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *jehwlanahts. Cognate with Old Norse jólanátt. Equivalent to ġēol + niht.
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geolniht · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution