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Nes  ‘seat,’ which therefore is of a cognate root with.   , and, ‘lace,’ from  nęstel, ,  nęstilo, , nęstila, ,‘knot of ribbons, bow, lace (for stays, &c.), bandage’; allied to  and  nestel, ‘girdle, lace,’  nist, niste, , ‘stitching needle,’ and with further gradation  nusta, , ‘tying together,’ as well as nuska,  nüsche, ‘clasp of a cloak’ If st and sk in these words be regarded as a part of the derivative, they may be compared with  necto, ‘to join’ (and the  root nah, ‘to connect’?). nęstilo ( *nastila) has also been connected with nôdus (for *nozdus, like nîdus from *nizdus; see ). The form *nastila passed into ;  nastro, ‘silk ribbon.’  ,, ‘neat, nice, pretty,’ first occurs in early ; from and  net ( nitidus).  ,, ‘net,’ from the  nętze,  nęzzi, ; corresponding to  nęt (and nętti), , , , and  net,  nati,  net, , ‘net’; a common  term, to which the graded  nȯt, ‘large net,’ is allied. The etymology is obscure; it is scarcely allied to, *nata-; it is rather connected with , with which it may be based on a pre- root nū̆d, ‘to sew, knit.’  also  nassa, ‘creel, net.’  ,, ‘to wet, moisten,’ from nętzen,  nęzzen ( natjan), ‘to wet’; a verbal noun from. ,, ‘new, fresh, modern, novel,’ from the  niuwe, niu,  niuwi. Corresponding forms exist in the and Aryan group;  niujis,  nŷr,  níwe,  new,  nieuw,  niuwi. niuja, from pre- néuyo-, appears also in návyas (and návas),  naújas ( novŭ,  novus,  νέος), The  meaning of this  Aryan neujo-, newo, cannot be determined with certainty; it is probably connected with the  particle nū̆, ‘now,’ so what was new was regarded as ‘that which has just come into being’. Its relation to the following word is very doubtful. ,, ‘nine,’ from the  and  niun; corresponding to  niun, ‘nine,’  nigun,  negen,  nigun,  nine,  níu (all these represent *nī̆jun?); a common Aryan  numeral, like all the units. návan, novem,  ἐννέα,  nói. It has been supposed that the common Aryan word for (newn) is derived from  (néwos), ‘nine’ being regarded as the ‘new number’ of the third tetrad; the system of reckoning by fours must be assumed as the oldest in the Aryan languages, since the numeral, ‘eight,’ is a dual form. , particle, ‘not,’ from niht, , ‘nothing,’  niwiht, neowiht, ‘not’; it is used even in  and  to strengthen the negative ni, en. In the 12th this negative begins to be omitted, and towards the end of the 15th  it entirely disappears, its place being taken by. In, ‘to bring to nought, ruin,’ and , ‘by no means,’ is still used as a  (see ),  neowiht is a compound from ni eo wiht, ‘never a whit’ ; so  neowiht,  niet,  nâwiht, náuht,  not and naught;  ni waíhts, ‘nothing,’ ni waíhtai, ‘by no means.’ See , , , and.  ,, ‘niece,’ only (unknown to  dialects in which  is used), from  nicht, in  niftel,  niftila,  ( of  nift);   nift,  nipt. These are forms of, pointing to  *nifti, pre- neptî, , from nepôt,. The meaning of fluctuates as in the case of ;  niftel, ‘niece, mother's sister, first cousin,’  nipt, ‘sister’s daughter, niece,’  nift, ‘neptis privigna.’  also  neptis, ‘granddaughter,’ with nepos;  naptî,, ‘daughter, granddaughter,’ with nâpât.  ,, ‘nothing,’  only, in  niht. It originated from nihtes niht, an emphatic form of the simple niht, which was ultimately omitted; the   form nichtst is probably based directly on the  phrase, which in late  appears as nihtzit.  , and, ‘nickel,’  only, from the   nickel.  ,, ‘to nod, doze,’ from nicken,  nicchen; the iterative of  (like  of ,  of ). is not allied. ,, from the  nie,  nio, neo, ‘never’; a compound of ni and eo, ‘not ever,’ like  nio from ni io,  nâ from ne â; in  the