goodnighted

This word is basically a bedtime handshake. Anglo-Saxon English already had gōd for something fitting or beneficial, and niht for the dark stretch when work stopped and lamps took over, so the compound goodnight feels less like a noun and more like a tiny blessing tucked into a farewell. The odd thing is that the two roots have completely different pedigrees: good may be tied to the idea of things that 'fit together,' while night goes back to a prehistoric word for darkness shared with Latin nox and Greek nyx. English even used night in expressions like Monday night and Friday night in a way that could mean the night before a day, which is why the word feels so old and practical at once. So when someone was goodnighted, they weren’t just waved away — they were escorted out with a little pocket-sized wish for peace, like closing the door softly on the dark.