† sunnight Obs. rare.
Forms: 1 sunnan-niht, 3 suneniht, -niȝt, sonenyht. (See also sun's night s.v. sun n.1 13 c.)
[OE. sunnanniht: see sun n.1 and night n. Cf. OE. sunnanǽfen = LG. sonavend, OHG. sunnûn âband (MHG. sunnen-, sun(r)âbent, G. sonnabend).]
The night before Sunday, Saturday night.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) I. 216 His lic læᵹ on byrᵹene ða sæter-niht and sunnan-niht... And Crist aras of deaðe on ðone easterlican sunnan-dæᵹ. a 1225 Ancr. R. 22 Ȝif ȝe doð þvs eueriche niht, bute a suneniht one. c 1250 Doomsday 10 in O.E. Misc. 162 Þat fur schal kumen in þis world On one sune-niȝte [v.r. sone-nyhte]. |