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Nor  with νέρτερος, ‘that which exists below, lower down,’ which would involve the assumption that the word was coined at a period when the Teutons were descending the northern slope of a mountain range. Yet it must also be remembered that Umbr. nertro signifies ‘on the left.’ — To this ,, ‘northern region,’ is allied; from  norden,  nordan. ; also.   ,, only, naturalised,  by Klopstock, from the   norn ( norner), ‘goddess of fate’; the origin of the term is disputed.   ,, ‘pint’ (nearly), allied to nœȥelîn (ö?), , ‘a small liquid measure,’  of an obsolete  word, the origin of which is obscure.   ,, ‘need, compulsion, distress,’ from and  nôt,  (seldom ), ‘toil, oppression, danger, struggle, compulsion’; a common  form;   nauþs, , ‘necessity, compulsion, force,’  nauðr, , ‘necessity,’  nŷd, neád, ,  need,  nood,  nôd. The common stems naudi, nauþi, from pre- nauti-, have been connected with  nauti-, ‘distress’; nau- (see ) is probably the root. —   ,, ‘necessaries’ (of life), from nôt-durft, , ‘necessity, need, needs of nature, want of necessaries, livelihood,’  nôtduruft,  ( nôdthurft); allied to  naudiþaurfts, , ‘necessary.’ —   ,, early , to ‘necessary, legitimate heir, who may not be passed over.’ —   ,, ‘self-defence,’ from nôtwęr, , ‘warding off force.’ —   ,, ‘rape,’ formed from  nôtzühten, ‘to ravish, violate,’ and also the   nôtzogen,  ‘to treat in a violent manner,’ even in  nôtzogôn ( and  nôtnumft, ‘rape’). <section end="Notzucht" /> <section begin="Note" /> ,, ‘note, annotation,’ from nota ( note); in the sense of ‘musical note, melody,’ note appears even in. <section end="Note" /> ,, ‘well now, well,’ to. <section begin="nüchtern" /> ,, from the  nüchtern, nüchter,  nuohturn, nuohtarnîn, , ‘without food or drink, fasting, temperate,’   nuchter,  nixtnig. The assumption that the word is based on nocturnus does not suffice to explain the meaning of, since the  term signifies only ‘nocturnal, at  night’; nor is it possible to regard  nuohturn as a genuine  derivative of Aryan nō̆kt, ‘night’ ( nótt), since it must have been  in meaning to  nocturnus. It may more probably be compared with νηφάλιος, ‘I am sober,’ νηφάλιος, νήπτης, ‘sober, without wine,’ the φ-π of which may represent an old guttural. In spite of this probable connection of the root, the suffix of is still obscure, <section end="nüchtern" /> <section begin="Nücke" /> ', ',, ‘freak, artfulness,’ only, from  nücke;   nuk, ‘freak.’ <section end="Nücke" /> <section begin="Nudel" /> ,, ‘vermicelli, dumpling,’ first occurs in , whence nouilles; of obscure origin. <section end="Nudel" /> ,, ‘now, at present,’ from and  nu (with the variant nû), ‘at the present time, now,’ rarely in  with the adverbial suffix n (nun, nuon). Further in  (from  n); corresponding to  nū̆,  nu,  nū̆,  now,  nū̆, ‘now.’ A common  temporal ;   nu, nû, ‘now,’ nûnam, ‘now,’  νύ, νῦν,  nunc (with the c of hi-c),  nyně, ‘now,’  nu. and (1). ,, ‘only, simply,’ from newœre,  niwâri ( ne wâri);  ‘it would not be, if it were not.’  and the   have numerous intermediate forms between n-wœre and  nur,  nœ̂r, neur, niur, nuor. For the negative ne see. <section begin="Nüster" /> ,, ‘nostril,’ only, from  nuster,  nostril, is demonstrably a compound, signifying  ‘nose-hole’ (  nœs-þŷrel, nos-þyrl), We cannot so positively assume that the  word is also a compound, for the l of the  word is wanting. Hence some etymologists regard it as an r- derivative from nos- (a graded form of, earlier  , in Logau, ‘to snivel’), with a t inserted, and connect it with  nasraì, ‘mouth, jaw,’ and  nozdri, ‘nostrils.’  is not allied;. <section end="Nüster" /> <section begin="Nuß" />  (1.),, ‘nut,’ from the  and  nuȥ, , neither cognate with nor borrowed from  nux (nucem). It is rather a genuine world,  with initial h;   hnot,,  hnutu, ,  nut,  noot ( *hnuts, , is wanting). The genuine cognates point to a pre- knud-, which appears with the same sense in  cnú.

 (2.),, ‘blow, push,’ <section end="Nuß" />