The story
- Middle English · inherited fromnyght tyme
- English todaynighttime
From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.