æfen

• ēfen, ēfern

Form reflects Proto-West Germanic *āban, a byform or derivative of *ābanþ.

Cognate with Old Frisian ēvend, Old Saxon āƀand, Old Dutch āvont, Old High German ābant, Old Norse aptann.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.fen/, [ˈæː.ven]

ǣfen m

1. evening
2. eve: the day/evening/night before something

   mōnanǣfen ― Sunday evening

   *ġēolǣfen ― Christmas Eve

3. (Christianity) vespers

• (hour): ǣfentīd, ǣfentīma
• (vespers): ǣfendrēam, ǣfengebēd, ǣfenhrepsung, ǣfensang

• Middle English: even, evene, even, efen
  • English: even
  • Yola: e'en

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǢFEN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.