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Nir ', ',, ‘nowhere,’ from niergen, niergent; see. ', ',, ‘to build a nest, nestle,’ from the  nistein, nisten,  nisten; a verbal noun from. nistlian, to nestle,  nestelen.  ,, ‘nit,’ from the  niȥ (ȥȥ), , for hniȥ; corresponding to  neet,  hnitu, , and the   nit;  *hnits is not recorded. According to the permutation of consonants κονίς,  κονίδες, ‘eggs of lice, bugs, fleas,’ &c., may be akin, if the words in both languages be based on knid. It has also been connected with gnida. is not allied.  , the same as.  ,, ‘nixey, water-fairy,’ from (very rare) nickes,  nihhus,  and , ‘crocodile’;   nicor, ‘hippopotamus,’  nick, ‘water-sprite’ (Old Nick, applied to the devil),  nicker, ‘water-sprite,’  nykr (from *niqiza), ‘water-sprite in the form of a hippopotamus,’ also ‘hippopotamus.’ The  and  sense ‘crocodile’ is easily associated with the other meanings of the cognates; the  signification may be ‘fabulous sea-monster.’ The word is probably based on a  root niq from pre- nig ( nij,  νίπτω), ‘to wash oneself’; thus  would mean  ‘a sea-animal that delights in bathing, sea-spirit,’ while the  , like  nicor, points to  *niqiza, *nikuza-, the corresponding  , preserved only in , indicates  *niqisi;  nicchessa,  *nickese, *nixe, in waȥȥernixe, , ‘female water-sprite,’ for which in  męrwîp and męrmeit are used.   ,, ‘underwold, hell,’ borrowed, like , ‘tavern,’ the second part of the compound, in early from. The first component is abis, abyss,, ‘abyss,’ whence with n prefixed (  nabisso, from the usual combination in abysso), the  form , hence  ‘tavern in hell’   (1.),, from the  nock,  noh, ‘still’; corresponding to  noh,  nog,  nauk, ‘still’; a compound of nu, ‘now,’ and h,  to  que,  τε,  ca, ‘and also’; therefore the  meaning is probably ‘also now,’ or ‘even, just now’;  , and  with regard to  h-,  to  que, see  (2).

 (2.),, ‘nor,’ from noch,  noh, ‘nor, not even, and not even’;  noh—nok,  noch-, noch, ‘neither—nor,’ also even in  wëder—noch. Corresponding to noh,  noch; in  nih, ‘nor, not even,’  nih—nih, ‘neither—nor.’  nih is exactly  to  ne-que (with regard to  ni,  ne, see ). The particle -h, -uh, corresponding to que,  τε,  ca, ‘and,’ had a definite meaning in.  ,, ‘yard-arm,’ only, borrowed, like other nautical terms, from ;   nock,. ‘summit, point.’   ,, ‘afternoon prayers,’ from nône,  nôna, , ‘hora nôna, the ninth hour of the day’ (reckoned from six A.M.), also ‘the prayers said at that hour.’ The term was borrowed during the  period from  nôna (scil. hora;   none,  nona);  also  nôna, nôn,  nôn,  noon (the difference in time is said to be due to the shifting of the canonical ‘nona’ to midday).   ,, ‘nun,’ from the  nunne,  nunna, ; corresponding to  non,  and  nunne, ,  nun, adopted, like the previous word, in connection with monastic life, both in  and  about the beginning of the 9th , from  nonna ( νόννα), which passed also into ;   nonne, nonnain, ‘nun,’  nonna, ‘grandmother,’ like  nonno, ‘grandfather.’ The early history of the cognates is obscure; late  nonna was an ‘expressíon of reverence’ (hence its meaning in ).—

,, ‘gelded sow,’ is, like the corresponding words in and , identical with , ‘nun,’ and was thus termed for sexual reasons.   , (almost obsolete in the  vernacular), ‘north,’ from  nort ( nordes),  and,  nord, ; corresponding terms are found in all the  languages (whence  norte and  nord), the names of the cardinal points being formed independently in ; in this case the Aryan languages possess no common term. *north (recorded only as an ‘northwards’),  norþ,,  north. *naúrþs, or rather *naúrþr ( to norðr), is by chance not recorded. It has been 