Meaning: night

Represented in 156 languages with 8 cognate sets.
IE-CoR Definition

Illustrative Context

Night and day.

Target Sense
  • The most generic term for night as the basic antonym of day.
  • The term for the period of time alternating with day(light), not just for dark(ness) or black(ness) in general.
  • Avoid terms that are mostly figurative, e.g. for night as embodying fear or danger.

Cognate sets for meaning: night

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang