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Nei land separating a Haff from the sea,’ first occurs in, allied to (14th ) Nerge, ‘Kurische Nehrung’: “since Nehrung is a narrow strip of land, it may be derived from  naru, ‘narrow.’” See.   ,, ‘envy, grudge,’ from nît ( nîdes), , ‘hostile disposition, warlike fury, grudge, jealousy, envy,’  nîd, , ‘hatred, anger, envy.’ It corresponds to  nîð, , ‘zeal, hostile conflict, hatred,’  nijd, , ‘envy,’  nîþ, , ‘endeavour, effort, hostility’ (obsolete in ). In the corresponding word is,  neiþ, , ‘envy,’  nið, , ‘disgrace, opprobrious term.’  *nîþa-, connected with  nîtor, ‘to exert oneself’? —   , see.  ,, ‘to tilt, bend, incline,’ from nîgen,  , ‘to bow,’ and neigen,  , ‘to cause to bow, humiliate, lower’;  nîgan, from hnîgan,  , ‘to bow,’ and neigen,  , ‘to incline, bend.’ It corresponds to  hnîgan, hnêgian,  hnîgan, hnœ̂gan,  hneiwan, , ‘to bow, sink,’ hnaiwjan, , ‘to humiliate, bend’ (for *hneigwan, *hnaigwjan); the   is the causative of the. The root hnîgw, from pre- knī̆gh (or rather knī̆q?), is uncertain in the other Aryan languages. Perhaps co-nîveo, nîco, nicto, ‘to wink, nod,’ are connected with the  cognates. ,, ‘no,’ from the  and  nein (negative ); so too  nên (in the Heliand), ‘no’; derived from the   of negation ni,  ni,  en-ne (which also appears in the n of , , and ), and the  of the indefinite article , , and  ein,  to  ains;  is therefore ‘not one’ ( , meaning ‘not something’). The approximate source of no is the   nâ ( nei), in  nê, ‘no.’ The  negative ni, etymologically cognate with  and, belongs to the same class as  νη (e.g. νη-κερδής, ‘unprofitable’),  nĕ (in nĕfas) and nē̆, ‘not, lest, in order that not,’  na,  ne, ‘not,’  ne, ‘not.’  ,, ‘pink carnation,’ a form for  ( negęlkin), ; in  nęgellîn, , ‘clove.’   negull, , ‘clove,’  nagelbloem, ‘carnation.’  ,, ‘to name,’ from the   and  nęnnen (also nęmmen); originated in namnjan by the assimilation of mn; a verbal noun from  ( namo). namnjan from namô, nam an, ,  to  to name ( also nęmnan,  to  nęmnian). See and the remarks there on  noemen, ‘to name.’ ', ',, ‘to grumble, growl,’ only, of obscure origin; in  the  signifies ‘to speak indistinctly’ ( in a guttural fashion or through the nose). Allied perhaps to nurken, ‘to grumble, growl’?.  ,, ‘nerve, sinew,’ only, from  nervus.   ,, ‘nettle,’ from the  neȥȥel,  nęȥȥila, ; corresponding to  and  netel,  nętele, ,  nettle; allied to earlier   naȥȥa (the same as  nǫtr?), ‘nettle.’  *natus, , and *natilô, , ‘nettle,’ are by chance not recorded. Since the word can never lave had an initial h before the n.,  κνίδη, ‘stinging nettle,’ cannot be regarded as a cognate. The word has more correctly been connected with the common  ( nati), on the assumption that nets in early times were made of nettle-threads. Further cognates are wanting. The term has also been compared with noatis,  noterė, and  nenaid.   ,, ‘nest, haunt,’ from and  nëst, , ‘nest, resting-place for birds and also for sucking animals’; corresponding to , , , and  nest;  *nista- is wanting. The cognates are ; the form previous to the permutation of consonants was nizdo-, which is indicated likewise b  nîḍa-s, ‘lair of animals,’ also ‘dwelling,’ as well as by  net, ‘nest,’  nîdus, ‘nest,’ for *nizdus ( lìzdas and  gnězdo, ‘nest,’ are abnormal). The form nizdo- is a compound of the root sed, ‘to sit, seat oneself,’ and the verbal particle ni preserved in  (see ); nizdo-, from ni-sedó-, therefore means  ‘place of settling’;   ni-sad, ‘to sit down, settle.’ In  and  nîdus and nest assumed the special meaning ‘bird's nest’; similarly in  a general word for ‘couch’ ( κοίτη) was restricted to a bear's haunt ( híþ); it belongs, like  κοίτη, κεῖμαι to the Aryan root çî, ‘to lie’). The  term for ‘nest’ is sitl, 