N
n, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V, [247], 9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V, [81], 45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112, 50; 204, b 31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29 (but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III, 269, 1; IV, 132, 13; V, [224], 24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30, 87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V, [297] a). n in nant, III, 35, 24, 31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.
na, nae, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8; 310, 9, 11, 13; V, [260], 16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27. canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna, 369, 51. wadna, 394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, B 1. woudna, 396, 23, 26. shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13. wasnae, 467, 34, etc., etc.
naesaid, IV, 371, 7: refused.
nags, naggs, nogs, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, 11: notches, nicks.
nain, own. See n.
nane, nen, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) See n.
nane, neen, none. I, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16; 425, 3: adverbially, not, not at all. See none.
nant, III, 35, 24, 31: aunt.
naow, V, [304], 5, 12, 14: now.
napkin (-ken, -kain), I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II, 108, 3; 158 f., 5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2.
nappy, V, [84], 13 (of ale): strong.
naps, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8, 9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133, D 6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-knapped gloves.
napskape, knapscap, IV, 7, 35; V, [251], 31: head-piece.
nar = nor, with comparative, for than: III, 112 f., 57, 69; V, [78] f., 12, 18. See nor.
nas, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.
naught, V, [102], A 13: naughtiness.
naughtless, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless heir, 286, 12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.
naughty, V, [267], 13: good-for-naught.
naur, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.
naw = na = no.
naw, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, [296], a: not.
nawn, own. See n.
naye, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably, truly.
ne, III, 349, 46; V, [272] b, 5, 6; [273], 16: no. III, 62, 128: not.
ne, stand ye nè aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original); g, stand in no awe.
nean, V, [219], 27; [220], 1; [257], 11: none.
near, neare, ner, nere, I, 101, 19; II, 183, 30; 191, 37; III, 62, 119; 111, 46; V, [224], 28: nearer.
near, IV, 446, 144; 447, 144: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows; while (till) my days are near (to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.
near, neer, never.
near-hand, adj., IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short. adv., III, 161, 36; IV, 222, 8 (near-han): near, almost.
neast, neist, nist, nest, V, [117], A 7; [216] f., 1, 5, 7, 10, 18; [242] a, 10, 12: next.
neathing, nothing.
neave, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.
neb, I, 425, A 16: beak.
nee, III, 422, 67: nigh.
needle-tack, II, 217, 5: fastening or stitch with a needle.
neen, none. See nane.
neen nae, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.
neerice, nurse. See nourice.
neeze, V, [222] b, 26: sneeze, snort.
neigh, v., II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.
neis, I, 302, B 8; IV, 247, B 12: nose.
neist, niest, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., 1, 3, etc.: next.
nelle, V, [284], 22: ne will, will not.
nen, her nen, V, [224], 24: own. See nane.
ner, nere, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See near.
nere, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.
nere, they nere, III, 112, 50: theyn ere, thine ear.
neshe, III, 445, 31: of delicate quality.
nest, next. See neast.
nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.
neuk, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.
new-fangle, I, 272, 9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.
next, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.
nextand, II, 94, 6. See -an.
neys, V, [80], 39: nice (ironically).
nicher, nicker, n. and v., III, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19, 13; 20, 10; 21, 11: neigh.
nicht, the, to-night.
nicked him of naye, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V, [182] f., 12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.
nicker. See nicher.
nick-nack, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, [123], 16; 124, B 14: to express the sound of successive collisions.
niddart, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422, 49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.
nie, III, 473, 27: neigh.
nie, neigh, nigh.
niest, I, 15, B 3; 147, 5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485, 30: nigh to. See neist.
niffer, n. and v., I, 203, C 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.
night-coif, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, [225], 4: night-cap.
night-wake, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption of lyke-wake.
nimble, nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, E 2, F 2, G 2.
nine, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.
ning, V, [165] f., 4, 12: nine. nine, [111], 26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.
nip, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.
nires, norice, nurse. See nourice.
nist, nest, neast, V, [216], 10; [242] a, 10, 12: next.
nit, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.
nit, I, 450, 2-4: nut.
nit-broun, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.
no, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, P 8, 10; II, 218, 12; 222, 19; III, 465, 32: not.
noble, nobellys, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V, [76] f., 18, 19, etc.
nocked, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.
noder, nother, III, 81, 58; 100, 80, no noder, noo nother=none other. See n.
nog. See nags.
noghte, not.
nolt, nout, V, [249], 4: neat, neat-cattle.
nom, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.
none, adv., II, 361, 24; V, [295], 1: not at all. See nane.
none of, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 5, 7: not at all my brother.
noo, V, [307], 11: now.
noorice. See nourice.
nor, nar, after a comparative, I, 5, C 9-18; II, 134 f., 15, 29; 268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, [184], 49: than. nor be, II, 97, 22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390, 23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.
not, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for out.
note, notte, V, [283], 9, 19: nut.
note, III, 512, E 6: corrupt (nut in F 7). Some impossibility is required.
noth, nothe, I, 334, 7, 8: not.
nother. See noder.
noughtless, naughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.
noumbles, nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.
nourice, nourrice, noorice, nourry, nurice, nurische, nury, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, C 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.
nout, nolt, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, [116], 1: neat cattle.
noute-horne, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, [297]).
nouthe, I, 334, 5: not.
nouther, IV, 219, 8: neither.
now, V, [78] f., 5, 24, 25: new.
noy, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.
nul, nule, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.
nume, pret., III, 355, 4: took.
nurice. See nourice.
nurische, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See nourice.
nury. See nourice.
nyghtgales, I, 327, 33: nightingales.
nyll, II, 478, 4: will not.