nos.
night, evening
Meaning & usage
night, evening
Where this word comes from
PIE word *nókʷts From Middle Welsh nos, according to Matasovic, a loanword from Latin nox (“night”), but according to Falileyev, from Old Welsh nos, from Proto-Celtic *noxt-stu-, a suffixed form of *noxs (“night”) (the expected Welsh descendant of this would be **noeth). Cognates include Breton noz, Cornish nos and Gaulish nox.
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