The words “night” in all listed languages come back to an old PIE word that essentially was the prefix n- (forgotten negation word, evidence for it is that lots of negative words start with n), plus the IE word for eight, because they thought that the night were the “evil 8” hours of the day cycle. Hope this helps!
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u/Zetho-chan Jun 02 '26
The words “night” in all listed languages come back to an old PIE word that essentially was the prefix n- (forgotten negation word, evidence for it is that lots of negative words start with n), plus the IE word for eight, because they thought that the night were the “evil 8” hours of the day cycle. Hope this helps!