Where does “nightmarcher” come from?
nightmarcher (English) comes from English marcher, from English March, from Middle English March, from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la — that.
nightmarcher (English): In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places
Definitions
- In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places
Ancestry of “nightmarcher”, step by step
nightmarcher traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English marcher
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | marcher | An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord |
| 2 | English | March | The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox |
| 3 | Middle English | March | March |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | marche | limit; boundary |
| 5 | Old French | marz | — |
| 6 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 7 | Italian | là | there |
| 8 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 9 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 10 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 11 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 12 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 13 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 14 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 15 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 16 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 17 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via English night
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | night | The period between sunset and sunrise, when a... |
| 2 | Middle English | nyght | Alternative form of nighte; Alternative form of... |
| 3 | Middle English | nighte | night |
| 4 | Old English | nyht | Alternative form of niht |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | naht | night |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | nahts | night |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | nókʷts | night |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | negʷ- | bare, naked |