[nôðer] (from nâ-hwäðer), neg., and not, nor, [2125].
ge-[nôh], adj., sufficient, enough: acc. sg. fæhðo genôge, [2490]; acc. pl. genôge ... beágas, [3105].
[nôn], st. f., [Eng. noon], ninth hour of the day, three o'clock in the afternoon of our reckoning (the day was reckoned from six o'clock in the morning; cf. Bouterwek Screádunga, 24 2: we hâtað ænne däg fram sunnan upgange ôð æfen): nom. sg. nôn, [1601].
[nu], adv.: l) now, at present, [251], [254], [375], [395], [424], [426], [489], etc.: nu gyt (up to now, hitherto), [957]; nu gen (now still, yet), [2860]; (now yet, still), [3169].—2) conj., since, inasmuch as: nu þu lungre geong ... nu se wyrm ligeð (go now quickly, since the dragon lieth dead), [2746]; so, [2248]; þät þu me ne forwyrne ... nu ic þus feorran com (that do not thou refuse me, since I am come so far), [430]; so, [1476]; nu ic on mâðma hord mîne bebohte frôde feorh-lege, fremmað ge nu (as I now..., so do ye), [2800]; so, [3021].
[nymðe], conj. w. subj., if not, unless, [782]; nymðe mec god scylde (if God had not shielded me), [1659].
[nyt], st. f., duty, service, office, employment: acc. sg. þegn nytte beheóld (did his duty), [494]; so, [3119].—Comp.: sund-, sundor-nyt.
[a]nyt], adj., useful: acc. pl. m. nytte, [795]; comp. un-nyt.
ge-[nyttian], w. v., to make use of, enjoy: pret. part. häfde eorð-scrafa ende ge-nyttod (had enjoyed, made use of), [3047].
[nýd], st. f., force, necessity, need, pain: acc. sg. þurh deáðes nýd, [2455]; instr. sg. nýde, [1006]. In comp. (like nýd-maga, consanguineus, in Æthelred's Laws, VI. 12, Schmid, p. 228; nêd-maga, in Cnut's Laws, I. 7, ibid., p. 258); also, tie of blood.—Comp. þreá-nýd.
ge-[nýdan], w. v.: 1) to force, compel: pret. part. nîðe ge-nýded (forced by hostile power), [2681].—2) to force upon: pret. part. acc. sg. f. nýde genýdde ... gearwe stôwe (the inevitable place prepared for each, i.e. the bed of death), [1006].