Etymology

all-night

Today it means: Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it) Full definition →

English night ← Middle English nyght ← Old English niht
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂elnós
  3. Proto-Germanic*allaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*ala-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*ala-
  6. Old Englishæl-
  7. Middle Englishall-
  8. Englishall-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*nókʷts
  10. Proto-Germanic*nahts
  11. Proto-West Germanic*naht
  12. Proto-West Germanic*nahti
  13. Old Englishniht
  14. Middle Englishnyght
  15. Englishnight
  16. English todayall-night

From all- + night.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.