Where does “nightshirt” come from?
I cannot write an accurate etymology sentence for this entry because the provided chain contains only circular repetitions between "English night" and "English nightclub" with no connection to the headword "nightshirt" and no meaningful etymological progression to older languages or forms.
nightshirt (English): A shirt-like garment that is worn to bed
Definitions
- A shirt-like garment that is worn to bed
Ancestry of “nightshirt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
Words derived from “nightshirt”