ge-[nip], st. n., darkness, mist, cloud: acc. pl. under nässa genipu, [1361]; ofer flôda genipu, [2809].
[nis], from ne-is (is not): see [wesan].
[niwe, niówe], adj., new, novel; unheard-of: nom. sg. swêg up â-stâg niwe geneahhe (a monstrous hubbub arose), [784]; beorh ... niwe (a newly-raised(?) grave-mound), [2244]; acc. sg. niwe sibbe (the new kinship), [950]; instr. sg. niwan stefne (properly, novâ voce; here = de novo, iterum, again), [2595]; niówan stefne (again), [1790]; gen. pl. niwra spella (new tidings), [2899].
ge-[niwian], w. v., to renew: pret. part. ge-niwod, [1304], [1323]; geniwad, [2288].
[niw-tyrwed], pret. part., newly-tarred: acc. sg. niw-tyrwedne (-tyrwydne, MS.) nacan, [295].
[nîð], st. m., properly only zeal, endeavor; then hostile endeavor, hostility, battle, war: nom. sg., [2318]; acc. sg. nîð, [184], [276]; Wedera nîð (enmity against the W., the sorrows of the Weders), [423]; dat. sg. wið (ät) nîðe, [828], [2586]; instr. nîðe, [2681]; gen. pl. nîða, [883], [2351], [2398], etc.; also instr. = by, in, battle, [846], [1440], [1963], [2171], [2207].—Comp.: bealo-, fær-, here-, hete-, inwit-, searo-, wäl-nîð.
[nîð-draca], w. m., battle-dragon: nom. sg., [2274].
[nîð-gast], st. m., hostile alien, fell demon: acc. sg. þone nîð-gäst (the dragon), [2700].
[nîð-geweorc], st. n., work of enmity, deed of evil: gen. pl. -geweorca, [684].
[nîð-grim], adj., furious in battle, savage: nom. sg., [193].