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Nas  nosŭ,, nósis,  nâsus, nâres. See further.   ,, ‘wet, moist,’ from the  and  naȥ, ; corresponding to  *nata-,  *nats, ‘wet’ (deduced from natjan; see );  and  nat. nata- can scarcely be connected with nadĭ,, ‘river,’ because the latter is derived from a root nad, ‘to rush, roar.’ Perhaps  νοτερός, ‘wet’ (νοτέω, ‘I am wet’), points, like the  cognates, to a root not, nod (  with  κότος). likewise may be allied; see  and. —   ,, ‘humidity,’ from naȥ, , ‘fluid, moistness’; the   used as a   —   ,, ‘humidity, moisture,’ from nezze,  nezzl, , an abstract from.   ,, ‘adder, viper, asp,’ from the  nâter, nâtere,  nâtara, ; corresponding to  nâdra,  adder (for nadder; see under , ),  nœ̂ddre,  adder (likewise, with the loss of the initial n, see ). *nêdro is wanting, the graded form nadrs,, ‘adder,’ being used; naðr, naðra, ‘adder.’ A specifically  word, the early history of which is not quite clear; it can scarcely be connected with  natrix, ‘water-snake,’ which belongs to nare, natare, ‘to swim.’   ,, ‘barque,’ from nâwe, nœwe,  and , ‘small ship,’  ‘ferryboat’; not  allied to  nâvis, but rather borrowed from it in the  period. The cognate of  nâvis,  νηῦς,  nãus, is  nór, ‘ship,’ of which we should have expected the corresponding  form *nuowe. It is certainly remarkable that the  word corresponding to the Aryan terms adduced has been preserved only in.   ,, ‘mist, fog, haze,’ from the  nëbel,  nëbul; corresponding to  nëbal, ,  nevel (in  mist; see ). *nibls is wanting; allied to the compounds with nifl-, ‘darkness,’ to which njól, ‘night,’ is akin (  nifol, ‘dark’). nëbul, from pre- nebholo-, corresponds to νεφέλη, ‘cloud, mist,’  νέφος, ‘cloud, mist,’  nĕbula, ‘mist,’  nábhas,, ‘mist, cloud, dampness,’  nebo (stem nebes-), , ‘sky,’  nel, ‘cloud.’  , and, ‘beside, along with, in addition to,’ from  nëben,  shortened form of enében,  nëben, inében, ‘beside’; as a compound of  and  it signifies  ‘in the same line with,’ similarly  on efn, on emn, ‘alongside.’  the following word. ,, ‘along with, together with,’ first occurs in early , with the variant. Borrowed from, in which nevens, ‘near to,’ occurs, which is etymologically to. ,, ‘to tease, banter,’ from  nęcken, ‘to excite the appetite,’ to which is allied   nachaft, ‘malicious, crafty,’ nac-heit, ‘malice, cunning’; not found in. Of obscure origin. See.  , (with abnormal ff), ‘nephew,’ from  nëve,  něvo, ;  existing in all the   (now obsolete in  and ). The meaning in the older languages was not so definite as at present; nëve, most frequently means ‘sister's son,’ also more rarely ‘brother's son,’ likewise ‘uncle,’ then generally ‘relative’;  neef, ‘grandson, nephew, cousin,’  nëfa, ‘grandson, nephew’ ( nephew is based on  neveu),  nefe,, ‘relative.’  *nifa, , is by chance not recorded. The cognates are primitive and common to the Aryan group; *nefôd,   (of which there is a  form niftî; see ), from pre- népôt, appears in  nápât (stem náptṛ), ‘descendant, son, grandson,’  nepos, ‘grandson,’  ἀνεψιός, ‘first cousin,’ νέποδες, ‘brood,’  nia, ‘sister’s son.’ With regard to the fluctuation of meaning see, , , and. <section end="Neffe" /> ,, ‘to take, accept,’ from the  nëmen,  nëman; a common    with the same signification throughout the group;  , , and  niman,  nema. The most nearly allied in sense to these are emere and  em ( imą?), ‘to take,’ with which  is connected in sound if its initial n is the relic of a particle. nëman may, however, be compared more probably with νέμω, ‘to distribute, pasture’  γέμος (νόμος), ‘pasturage,’  to  nemus, ‘grove,’  γόμος, ‘law,’ in which case it is especially connected with the mid. νέμεσϑαι, ‘to distribute among themselves, possess, consider as, hold.’ <section begin="Nehrung" /> ,, ‘a long narrow strip of <section end="Nehrung" />