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NIGHTFALL.
Matth. 14, 15, where the Vulg. has f
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hora jam praeteriit/ Luther
Germanizes it into die nacht fdllt daher (on, apace) ; and O.
Germ, already used the verbs ana gdn,fallan in this sense : aband
unsih ana geit, ther dag ist sines sindes, 0. v. 10, 8. in ane
gdenda naht, N. Bth. 31. der abent begunde ane gdn, Mar. 171.
schiere viel do diu naht an, Roth. 2653. do diu naht ane gie, Er.
3108. unz daz der abent ane gie, Flore 3468. Ls. 1, 314.
Wigal. 1927. 6693. als der abent ane get, Wigal. 4763. biz daz
der abent ane lac, Ls. 1, 243. diu naht diu gat mich an, Wolfd.
1174. diu naht get uns vaste zuo, Livl. chron. 5078. In the same
68. also iz zuo
way sigen (sink) : do der abent zuo seic, Diut. 3,
deme abande seic 3, 70. nu seig ouch der abent zuo, Frauend. 95,
20. diu naht begunde mo sigen, Rab. 102. begunde sigen an,
367. do diu naht zuo seic, Dietr. 62 b . diu naht siget an, Ecke
106. der abent seic ie naher, Gudr. 878, 1. ze tal diu sunne was
genigen, und der abent zuo gesigen, Diut. 351, diu naht begunde
sigen an, Mor. 1620. 3963. 1 diu tageweide diu wil hin (the day s
delight it will away), der abent siget vaste zuo, Amgb. 2 a . der
tach is ouch an uns gewant, uns siget der avent in die hant,
Ssp. pref. 193. in der sinkenden naht, Cornel, releg., Magd.
1605, F. 5 a . in sinklichter nacht, Schoch stud. D. 4 a . And we
still say till sinking night. 3 Much the same are : nu der
abent, diu naht zuo gefloz (came flowing up), Troj. 13676. 10499.
AS. sefen com sigeltorht swungen, Andr. 1246. But this set
ting in, gathering, falling can also come softly, secretly, like
a thief: diu naht begunde slichen an (creep on), Dietr. 68 b . nu
was diu naht ges lichen gar iiber daz gevilde (fields), Christoph.
413. do nu diu naht her sleich, und diu vinster in begreif (dark
16. do
ness caught him) 376 : so thiu naht bifeng, Hel. 129,
begreif in die nacht, Florsheim chron. in Munch 3, 188. wie
mich die nacht begrif, Simplic. 1, 18. hett inich die nacht schon
begriffen, Gotz v. Berl. p. m. 164. In MHG. we find predicated
of night ez benemen/ to carry off (the light ? the victory ?) :
unz inz diu naht benam, Gudr. 879,
1. ne hete iz in diu naht
benomen, Diut. 3, 81 (conf. Gramm. 4, 334). Hroswitha says, in
Fides et spes : dies abiit, nox incumbit.
1 Both times segen in text ; if sigen an (vincere) were meant, we should ex
pect the word day in the dative.
2 Goethe says sweetly : For Evening now the earth was rocking, And on the
mountains hung the Night.