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Nah . The cognates were probably borrowed in pre-historic times by one tribe from another, so that may not be a genuine  word.   ' in, from nar,  nara, , ‘rescue, maintaining, sustenance,’ To this is allied the derivative ', , ‘nourishment, food,’ from  narunge, , maintenance, nourishment’; allied to.   ,, ‘to nourish, support, foster,’ from nęrn, nęrigen,  nęren, nęrian;  causative of , hence ‘to cause to recover, make healthy, heal, rescue, keep alive.’ The modern gene is found as early as. The word corresponds to nęrian,  nęrigan,  nasjan, ‘to rescue.’ The change of s (for z) to West  and  r at the end of the stem in causative  is normal ; allied to  nœ́ra. See and.   ,, ‘seam,’ from the  and  nât, ; corresponding to  naad. Allied to, root né ( *néþs), and to nâtâri, nâteri,  nâtœre, , ‘sewer, tailor,’ of which the  form is  nâtœrîn,. See and.  ,, ‘naïve, artless,’ borrowed in the last from  naïf.  ,, ‘name,’ from the  name,  namo,. This word, to which there are corresponding terms in all the and Aryan languages, is of the greatest antiquity, and is most widely diffused. namo, naam,  nǫma, nama,,  name;  namô,   nafn,  (for namn), ‘name’;  to the corresponding  nãman-,  ὄ-νουα,  nômen,  imę,  (from *ĭn-men, *n-men),  emmens,  ainm. The Aryan form may have been nō̆men-. Aryan nômen is indicated by bennomen and  noemen, ‘to name,’ yet the  and  words present some phonetic difficulties. Formerly ὄνομα and  nômen were derived from the root γνω-, gnô-, ‘to recognise’   to know, see ), so that Aryan nō̆men would represent gnômen, and have  signified ‘means of recognition’; this view wants phonetic confirmation. Others derive  from the root nem in, so that the word would mean ‘that which is accepted,’ which is  likewise improbable; see further  and .   ', , ‘bowl, basin,’ from  napf,  napf, for an earlier hnapf, , ‘goblet, dish’; corresponding to  and  nap, ‘bowl,’  hnœp ( hnœppes), ‘goblet.’ Of obscure origin. The  cognates passed into ;   nappo,  hanap, ‘goblet.’   ',  (apparently hardly known in ), ‘scar,’ from the   narwe, late  narwa, ,  ‘narrowness, contraction’; a   from the  narwa- ( naru,  nearu,  narrow), ‘narrow’. in the non- languages, nèr-ti, ‘to thread (a needle),’ narvà, ‘cell of the queen-bee.’   , ‘nard, spikenard,’ from the   narde,  narda, ; formed from  and  νάρδος, nardus, introduced also through the translation of the Bible into other languages. <section end="Narde" /> <section begin="Narr" /> ,, ‘fool,’ from and  narre, , ‘simpleton, fool,’  narro,  ‘madman’; a word peculiar to , the origin of which is totally obscure. The derivation from nârio, ‘sneerer, scoffer, subsannans,’ is not satisfactory, since the  word would be represented by a different form in ; moreover, there is no reason, as far as the meaning is concerned, to suppose that the word was borrowed (see ). Allied to snurring,  snürrine, ‘buffoon, fool’?. <section end="Narr" /> <section begin="Narwal" /> ,, ‘sea-unicorn,’ only, borrowed from  and  narhval ( to  ná-hvalr), whence also  narwal. The origin of these cognates, introduced from the North, is obscure. See. <section end="Narwal" /> ,, ‘to pilfer dainties,’ from naschen,  nascôn, ‘to partake of dainties, pilfer dainties’; for *hnaskôn, allied to  hnasqus, ‘soft, tender,’  hnęsče, ‘soft, tender,’  nesh?. <section begin="Nase" /> ,, ‘nose,’ from the  nase,  nasa, ; corresponding terms occur in the other  languages, but  *nasa is by chance not recorded. nǫs, (for nasu, nasô);  (with gradation o, a) nosu, nasu,  nose (the form with a in the stem appears in numerous  compounds as nœs-),  neus. Like other terms for parts of the body, this too is common Aryan (see, , , , , &c.);  nā̆sâ, nas,. <section end="Nase" />