Obs. rare. Forms: 1 sunnan-niht, 3 suneniht, -niȝt, sonenyht. (See also sun’s night s.v. SUN sb. 13 c.) [OE. sunnanniht: see SUN sb. and NIGHT sb. 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 læʓ on byrʓene ða sæter-niht and sunnan-niht…. And Crist aras of deaðe on ðone easterlican sunnan-dæʓ.
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].
