köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Germanic *nahts Proto-Germanic *midjanahts Old High German mittinaht Middle High German mitternaht German Mitternacht Inherited from Middle High German mitternaht,…
köken: Inherited from Middle French mynuyt, from Old French mie nuit, from mie, feminine singular of mi (“half, half way”) + nuit (“night”). Equivalent to mi- + nuit. Compare Occitan mièjanuèch, mièjanuèit, Catalan mitjanit, Portuguese meia-noite, Spanish medianoche, Italian mezzanotte, Romanian miazănoapte.
aile: bain de minuit, douze coups de minuit, messe de minuit, soleil de minuit
köken: From Proto-Semitic *śimaʔl-. Cognate with Hebrew שְׂמֹאל (s'mól, “left”), Akkadian 𒆏 (šumēlum, “left side”), Aramaic סְמָלָא (səmālā) / ܣܡܠܐ (semmālā, “left side”), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎎𐎀𐎍 (šmảl). The north sense derives from the left-hand side facing the sunrise, also attested in Sabaean 𐩠𐩦𐩱𐩣𐩡 (hs²ʾml, “to be northward”).
köken: From Middle Dutch middernacht, variant of middenacht. The form middernacht originated as a dative in expressions like te(r) midder nacht (“at midnight”).
Het feest begon om 20:00 uur en eindigde om middernacht.
Ze wachtte tot middernacht om hem te verrassen met zijn verjaardagscadeau.
köken: Inherited from Latin mediam noctem, accusative of nox (“night”). Compare Italian mezzanotte, Aromanian njadzã-noapti, Istriot miezanuotto, Romansch mesanotg. Was the traditional word for "north", but was replaced by nord.
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old Czech pólnoc, from Proto-Slavic *polъnoťь. Equivalent to půl + noc. Compare Polish północ.