Etymology of the English word nightie
the English word
nightieusing the English suffix
-iederived from the English word
nightgownderived from the English word
gownderived from the Old French word
gounederived from the Late Latin word
gunna (skirt)
derived from the English word
nightderived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nokʷt-derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nekʷ-t-derived from the Proto-Germanic root
*nakht-Usage
Word found in Modern English