νύξ

νύξ
νύξ, νυκτός
Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: `night' (Il.).
Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. νυκτο-μαχ-ία, -ίη f. abstract formation as if from *νυκτο-μάχος; νυκτο-μαχέω Plu.), νυκτί-πλαγκτος `causing to wander by night' (A.; with locativ. 1. member, partly prob. also analogical; cf. below); as 2. member e.g. in ἀωρό-νυκτ-ος `in untimely nightly hour' (A. Ch. 34), μεσο-νύκτ-ιος `in the middle of the night' (Pi., Hp.; from μέσαι νύκτες); besides -νυχ-, e.g. ἔν-νυχ-ος, ἐν-νύχ-ιος `nightly, in the night' (Il.), νύχιος `nightly' (Hes.), νυχεύω `wake through the night' (E., Nic.); cf. below.
Derivatives: Many derivv., most with ρ-suffix (s. below): 1. νύκτωρ adv. `at night' (Hes., Archil.); 2. νύκτερος `nightly' (trag.) with νυκτερίς, -ίδος f. `bat' (Od., cf. Lommel Femininbild. 53), also as fish- and plantname (Opp., resp. Aët.; Strömberg Fischn. 111, s. also Pflanzenn. 74 on ἑσπερίς a.o.), νυκτερῖτις, -ιδος f. 'ἀναγαλλὶς ἡ κυανῆ' (Ps.-Dsc.; Redard 74f.), νυκτερεύω `pass the night waking', also with δια-, ἐν- etc. (X.), from which νυκτερ-εία f. `nightly chase' (Pl.), -ευμα n. `nightquarters' (Plb.), -ευτής m. `nightly hunter' (Pl.), -ευτικός `useful in nightly hunt' (X.); 3. νυκτέριος `nightly' (Aret., Luc.), τὰ νυκτέρεια = ἡ νυκτερεία (Eun.); 4. νυκτερινός `id.' (IA.) with νυκτερινία or -εία f. `direction of night watch' (Ephesos Ip; wr. -ηα); 5. νυκτερήσιος `id.' (Luc., S. E.; for -ίσιος?, s. Fraenkel 2, 151, n. 1 a. below). -- Further the rare νύκτιος `nightly' (AP), νυκτῳ̃ον n. `temple of the night' (Luc.), after μητρῳ̃ον a. o., Νυκτεύς m. PN (Apollod., prob. shortname; Bosshardt 125 f.). -- On itself stands with λ-sufflx νυκτάλωψ, s. v. But νυκτέλιος adjunct of Dionysos (AP, Plu., Paus.) haplologically for *νυκτι-τέλιος as hypostasis of νύξ and τέλος (τελέω), cf. νυκτελεῖν ἐν νυκτὶ τελεῖν H. and Schwyzer 483.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [762] *nekʷt- `night'
Etymology: Old inherited word for `night', in most IE languages retained: Lat. nox, gen. pl. nocti-um, Germ., e.g. Goth. nahts, Skt. nák, acc. nákt-am (as adv.), Lith. naktìs, gen. pl. nakt-ų̄, Slav., e.g. OCS noštь etc., all from IE *nokt-; the i-stem in Lat. nocti-um, Lith. nakt-ìs, OCS nošt-ь etc. comes from innovations of the separate languages. The deviating υ in νύξ is often explained as reduced grade e.g. by Brugmann (e.g. Grundr.2II: 1,435), who sees in it the reflex of a following labiovelar; basis then *nokʷt-, what is confirmed by Hitt. nekuz (gen. sg.) from IE *nekʷt-s. Diff. W. Petersen AmJPh. 56, 56f. (υ after *λύξ in ἀμφι-λύκ-η etc.); Sapir Lang. 14, 274 (υ from a laryngal, which is certainly wrong); diff. still H. Petersson LUÅ, NF 11 : 5, 12 f. (rejected by imself Heteroklisie 122 f.). -- The pregr. existence of the r-stem in νύκτωρ (formation like ὕδωρ?; Schwyzer 519 a. n. 4) etc. is proven by Lat. nocturnus; the further formation of the adjectives goes partly parallel to the derivv. from ἦμαρ, ἡμέρα: νυκτερινός : ἡμερινός, νυκτέριος : ἡμέριος, νυκτερήσιος : ἡμερήσιος (s.v.); also νυκτερεύω : ἡμερεύω. Diff., hardly correct on νύκτερος Szemerényi Glotta 38, 120: innovation after ἕσπερος. An i-stem, alternating with the r-stem, is supposed by Benveniste Origines 81 with doubtful right in the 1. member νυκτι--; cf. above. -- The aspirated and t-less form in νύχα νύκτωρ H., ἔν-νυχ-ος, -ιος, εἰνά-νυχ-ες, `nine nights long', νύχιος etc. is attested only for Greek; a convincing explanation has not yet been given; s. the lit. in W.-Hofmann s. nox (with many details) and WP. 2, 338; also Specht Ursprung 220 and Austin Lang. 18, 24 (with Belardi Doxa 3, 215). On -νυχ- as 2. member also Sommer Nominalkomp. 64 f.
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