Yesternight
/ˌjɛstərˈnaɪt/noun
The night immediately before the present day; last night.
Did you know?“Yester-” comes from an ancient word for “yesterday,” while “night” descends from the same Indo-European root behind Latin nocturnal and nocturne.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*nokʷt-
“Night; the period of darkness”
Old English
Old English
niht
“Night, darkness, or the time after sunset”
Old English
Old English
ġeostran
“Yesterday; the day before”
Middle English
English
yesternight
“The preceding night; last night”
Modern English
English
yesternight
“A poetic, archaic, or dialectal word for the night immediately before today”