See evennight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "*even-night"
},
"expansion": "Middle English *even-night",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "efnniht"
},
"expansion": "Old English efnniht",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*ebnanaht",
"t": "equinox"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *ebnanaht (“equinox”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "even",
"3": "night"
},
"expansion": "even- + night",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "evennacht"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian evennacht",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "jafnnætti"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse jafnnætti",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "nachtevening",
"t": "equinox"
},
"expansion": "Dutch nachtevening (“equinox”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English *even-night, from Old English efnniht, from Proto-West Germanic *ebnanaht (“equinox”), equivalent to even- + night. Cognate with Old Frisian evennacht, ivinnacht, Old Norse jafnnætti. Compare also Dutch nachtevening (“equinox”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "evennights",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "evennight (plural evennights)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with even-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Calendar",
"orig": "en:Calendar",
"parents": [
"Timekeeping",
"Time",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Germanic paganism",
"orig": "en:Germanic paganism",
"parents": [
"Germanic mythology",
"Paganism",
"Mythology",
"Occult",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Forteana",
"Supernatural",
"Society",
"Pseudoscience",
"Folklore",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1992, Stephen A. McNallen, Maddy Hutter, The Runestone - Volumes 1-12:",
"text": "Ostara's Day is the first Sunday following the Spring Evennight, which means it can never be later than March 31, even when March 24 is the previous Sunday, and the old date is used, March 25, for the beginning of spring.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Dorothy Hearst, Spirit of the Wolves:",
"text": "\"I have told the leaders of Kaar that wolves will only come back to the village if a krianan brings them. They are choosing a new krianan at their Spring Festival on Even Night.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Victoria Whitworth, Daughter of the Wolf:",
"text": "\"I'll be there. At the even-night.\" Five months away.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Joanna Courtney, Helen Hollick, Annie Whitehead, 1066 Turned Upside Down:",
"text": "Belly round now with the child. Please bring Grandmother to me. The harvest had been gathered less than a month ago and in three days folk would be celebrating the 'even night', the feast of Mabon, when day and night were equal in length, and beer and wine would be drunk in huge amounts in thanksgiving of the safe bringing in of the earth's bounties.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Equinox."
],
"id": "en-evennight-en-noun-ifuAKp53",
"links": [
[
"Germanic",
"Germanic#Adjective"
],
[
"paganism",
"paganism"
],
[
"Equinox",
"equinox"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, historical, Germanic paganism) Equinox."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "even-night"
},
{
"word": "even night"
}
],
"tags": [
"Germanic",
"historical",
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"paganism",
"religion"
]
}
],
"word": "evennight"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "*even-night"
},
"expansion": "Middle English *even-night",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "efnniht"
},
"expansion": "Old English efnniht",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*ebnanaht",
"t": "equinox"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *ebnanaht (“equinox”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "even",
"3": "night"
},
"expansion": "even- + night",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "evennacht"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian evennacht",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "jafnnætti"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse jafnnætti",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "nachtevening",
"t": "equinox"
},
"expansion": "Dutch nachtevening (“equinox”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English *even-night, from Old English efnniht, from Proto-West Germanic *ebnanaht (“equinox”), equivalent to even- + night. Cognate with Old Frisian evennacht, ivinnacht, Old Norse jafnnætti. Compare also Dutch nachtevening (“equinox”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "evennights",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "evennight (plural evennights)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms prefixed with even-",
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Calendar",
"en:Germanic paganism"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1992, Stephen A. McNallen, Maddy Hutter, The Runestone - Volumes 1-12:",
"text": "Ostara's Day is the first Sunday following the Spring Evennight, which means it can never be later than March 31, even when March 24 is the previous Sunday, and the old date is used, March 25, for the beginning of spring.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Dorothy Hearst, Spirit of the Wolves:",
"text": "\"I have told the leaders of Kaar that wolves will only come back to the village if a krianan brings them. They are choosing a new krianan at their Spring Festival on Even Night.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Victoria Whitworth, Daughter of the Wolf:",
"text": "\"I'll be there. At the even-night.\" Five months away.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Joanna Courtney, Helen Hollick, Annie Whitehead, 1066 Turned Upside Down:",
"text": "Belly round now with the child. Please bring Grandmother to me. The harvest had been gathered less than a month ago and in three days folk would be celebrating the 'even night', the feast of Mabon, when day and night were equal in length, and beer and wine would be drunk in huge amounts in thanksgiving of the safe bringing in of the earth's bounties.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Equinox."
],
"links": [
[
"Germanic",
"Germanic#Adjective"
],
[
"paganism",
"paganism"
],
[
"Equinox",
"equinox"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, historical, Germanic paganism) Equinox."
],
"tags": [
"Germanic",
"historical",
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"paganism",
"religion"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "even-night"
},
{
"word": "even night"
}
],
"word": "evennight"
}
Download raw JSONL data for evennight meaning in English (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.