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Nie two words were kept separate, ni aiw, ‘never.’ With regard to the negative ni see ; and for  io,  aiw,. ,, ‘below,’ from nide, ‘under, below,’  nida, , ‘under, beneath’; allied to.  (in ),, ‘below, beneath,’ from niden, nidene,  nidana, ,‘below’;   nithana,  neoþan (from  beneoþan is derived  beneath); allied to. ,, from the  nider,  nidar, , ‘down, downward’; corresponding to  nithar,  neder,  niþer,  nether,  niðr;  *niþar, is by chance not recorded. A derivative of the Aryan verbal particle ni, ‘down’ (see ), which is preserved in other forms (see  and );   nizŭ, ‘below,’ as well as  ni, ‘down,’ and  nitarâm, which is closely allied to the   — , as an, ‘nether, lower, base,’ has been recently formed from the   nidari,  nider, nidere, , ‘nether, low’; akin to  nithiri. ,, ‘pleasant, pretty, nice,’ from *nietich, of which only the  nietlîche, ‘zealously, diligently,’ is recorded; late  nietsam, ‘desiderabilis, desirable, pleasant’;   niudsam, ‘pleasant.’ The cognates are connected with  niot, , ‘lively longing, zealous endeavour,’  niud,  neód, ‘zeal, longing.’  , Neidnagel,, see.  , see and. , with an excrescent final d (as in ), from nie and man, ‘nobody’;   nieman, niemen,  nioman, ‘nobody’; see  and.  ',, ‘kidney,’ from the  nier, niere,  nioro,  ( also ‘testicle’); corresponding to  nier, ,  and  nêre (to which are allied  kidney,  kidenêre, from  *cȳ̆dneóre, *cȳ̆dneóra?, ‘kidney’; in  nýra, ‘kidney,’ with i- mutation. If the latter indicates  *niuzô, , the  class has no further cognates; but if we are to assume  *niurô, niurjô, corresponding forms may be found in the other Aryan languages, which have numerous terms for parts of the body in common with ;  *niurô for *niwrô, *negwrô, from Pre- *neghrôn, which is represented in   by an  γεφρός, ‘kidney, testicle’ (φ for gh); akin further to  nefrones. With regard to  *niu- for *niw-, *nigw-, see .  ', , ‘to sneeze,’ from the   niesen,  niosan,  ; corresponding to  niezen,  hnjósa (to which hnore, , ‘sneezing,’ is allied),  nêsin; also  fneôsan,  fnêsen,  to  fniezen, ‘to sneeze.’ The two  roots hnus and fnus seem to have been  identical; with these are connected  snêsen,  to sneeze. The pre- root qnus, ksnus, may be onomatopoetic.  ,, ‘hellebore,’ from the  nieswurz, ; akin to the preceding word. The name is due to the fact that the pulverised root has been used from the earliest times to produce sneezing.   ,, ‘usufruct,’ allied to ; see.   ,, from the  niet,  and , ‘bolt’;  *hniot is not recorded with this sense. The word is connected with hniotan, ‘to fasten,’  hnjóða,, ‘to strike, hammer, fix firmly’; the  root hnud, pre- knut, has not yet been found in other languages.   ,, ‘blank (in a lottery)’; “adopted in the first half of the 18th after the introduction of lotteries in the  fashion, from the   niet,  and , ‘nothing, nought,’ the gender of which was changed to ; the  word exactly corresponded  to  , .” See the latter words.   ,, see.  ,, ‘never, never again,’ from niemer, nimmer, nimer (from nie mêr), ‘never (of present and future actions)’;    in the sense of ‘no more, never again,’ for which  is used in preference. From niemêr, nimmêr, ‘never more.’ Both forms are derivatives of  nio and mêr (like  nœ̂fre,  never, from *nâmire);  contains the second component twice. See and. ,, only, from  and  nippen, ‘to sip’; in Henneb. and nepfen, nöpfen, with the  pf. further nipele,  nipple?.  ,, ‘toy, trinket,’ only, formed from  nippe. <section end="Nippsache" />