nihtgenga
Old English
editEtymology
editniht (“night”) + *genġa (“walker”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnihtgenġa m
- an evil being active at night
Declension
editDeclension of nihtgenga (weak)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “nihtgenga”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “niht-genga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.