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Nac night’ (allied to galan, ‘to sing’);  nahtigala,  nachtegaal,  nihtegale,  nightingale.   ,, ‘nape,’ from nacke, nac ( -ckes), , ‘hind part of the head, nape,’  nac hnac (cch), ;   nek,  hnëcca, , ‘neck, nape,’  neck,  hnakke, , ‘hind part of the head’ ( *hnakka, *hnikka, is wanting). In and   or  is mostly used, and in   (the  meaning of nacken, ‘bone,’ is remarkable). The graded form with ë ( hnëcca) parallel to a-o is preserved by in ;  nape ( hnapa?) seems to be a corresponding form with a medial labial. In the non- languages the word may be cognate with cnocc, OBret. cnoch, ‘hill, elevation’ (stem cnocco-).  ', ',, ‘naked, bare, nude,’ from the  nackt, nackent,  nacchut, nahhut, ; corresponding to  naakt,  nacod,  naked,  nǫkkverðr,  naqaþs, with the same meaning; a  derivative (see ) naqe-dó from pre- nogetó- ( nocht, ‘naked,’ from the  form nokto-). In the form nagná occurs with a  na for ta;  nagŭ,  nu̇gas, ‘naked,’ are formed without a suffix. Nothing further is known concerning the Aryan root nō̆g (allied to nûdus for *novdus, *nogvidus?), which has a bearing on the history of civilisation, since it implies the correlative ‘non-naked,’ i.e. ‘clad,’ and thus assumes that a sort of dress was worn in the  Aryan period. See also.  ,, ‘needle,’ from the  nâdel,  nâdal, nâdala, ; corresponding to  nêþla,  nál,  nœ̂dl, ,  needle,  naald,  nâdla. A common form for ‘needle,’ with the suffix þlô- (tlâ-), from the root nê (,  ‘an instrument for sewing), appearing in.   ,, from the  nagel,  nagal, , ‘nail’; corresponding to  nagal,  nagel,  nœgel,  nail,  nagl, ‘nail’;  *nagls may be deduced from the recorded  nagljan, ‘to nail.’ The West  words have mostly the double sense ‘nail of the finger or toe’ and ‘wooden, iron nail.’ The former meaning, in accordance with the corresponding words in the other Aryan languages, is the original one (in  there  is a distinction between nagl, ‘finger-nail,’ and nagle, ‘wooden, iron nail’). naglo- originated in Aryan noghlo-, or rather nokhló-;  nakhá,  and, ‘finger or toe nail, claw of birds,’  ὀνυχ- ( ὄνυξ), ‘claw, talon, hoof,’ then also ‘hook,’  unguis, ‘claw, talon,’  nogŭtĭ, ‘nail, claw’ (from  nogà, , ‘foot’);  nágas, ‘finger-nail,’ nagà, ‘horse's hoof.’ ‘The root nokh, nogh, is unknown; it must not be sought for in , the root of which was rather pre- ghnagh. See.  ,, ‘to gnaw, nibble,’ from the  nagen,  nagan, with the earlier variant gnagan;   and  gnagan,  to gnaw,  gnaga, ‘to gnaw.’ There are also forms with initial k instead of g,  knagen,  cnagan, likewise  chnagan, ‘to gnaw’; the form  originated in. To the root gnag, knag, no correspondences have been found as yet in the non- languages. ,, ‘near, impending,’ from nâch ( nâher),  nâh ( nâhêr), , ‘near’; corresponding to  nâh,  and  na,  neáh,  nigh,  (whence the   neár, ,  near;  next,  next);  nár,  néhws, ‘near.’ To the  stem nêhwa- (for further derivatives see under  and ) we should have expected néko-, nêqe-, in the non- languages, but they do not occur. ἐγγύς, ‘near,’ is no more in sound to  than  nā̆́huša, ‘neighbouring."— ',, from the   nâhe,  nâho, , ‘near, nearly.’—  ', , ‘nearness, proximity,’ from the   nœhe,  nâhî, ; an abstract of the  nâh.   , , ‘to sew, stitch,’ from the   nœjen,  nâjan; corresponding only to  naaijen;  *naian is wanting, neither is the word found in the other  languages. The verbal stem nê contained in  was at one time more widely diffused in the  group, as may be inferred from the common   (nêþlô-);  further . In the non- languages a root nê, ‘to spin,’ is found, which is usually connected with the root of ;   neo,  νέω, ‘I spin,’ νῆμα, ‘thread,’ νῆτρον, ‘spindle’; to this is allied a root snâ in  snáthe, ‘thread,’ snâthat, ‘needle’