English Wordbook/N
From The Anglish Moot
Staff N of the English Wordbook.
| nadir | n | depths |
| naive | adj | callow |
| nano-technology | n | motish-witcraft, smart dust (futuristic), small-knowing |
| narcolepsy | n | sleeping sickness, sleepsickness |
| narration | n | yarn |
| natatorium | n | indoor swimming pool, swimming pool room |
| nation | n | folkdom, landlede, kithdom, thede (from O.E theod), folk of one heartbeat |
| national | adj | thedish(c.f. O.E. "theodish", G. "deutch"), folkling, thedeling, landling, kithling |
| nationalism | n | landlust |
| native | n | erd-folk, first-folk, born-(), ()-born |
| native | adj | homeborn, inborn, homegrown, erd-folkish, first-folkish |
| natural selection | n | sieve of life |
| naturism | adj | barelife |
| naturists | n | barefolk, barebodies |
| nauseous | n | sickening, seasick, loathsome, wallwortish |
| navigate | vb | lode, steer, sail |
| navy | adj & n | fleet, fleethood |
| nebula | n | starcloud, heavenly cloud |
| necessary | adj | needed, needful |
| necessitate | vb | needen, ask, need, take, call for |
| necklace | n | meen |
| nectar | n | heaven's broth |
| negate | vb | unsay, undo |
| negative | adj | unsay(like "unhold"), naysome, undeed |
| neglect | vb | forslack |
| negligent | vb | wreckless |
| negotiate | vb | chaffer |
| negro | n | swartman, bloman, black |
| negro | adj | swart, swarthy, skinblack, black |
| Neolithic | n | New Stone Eldth |
| nephew | n | sibson |
| nerve | n | (abstract noun) boldness, doughtiness, guts, fastness, fearlessness, firmness, pith, pluck, steadiness, steel, heart, will, (concrete noun) sinew |
| nerve | n | boldness, doughtiness, guts, fastness, fearlessness, firmness, pith, pluck, steadiness, steel, heart, will |
| nervous | adj | edgy, keyed-up |
| neurose | n | sinewsugar |
| neurotransmitter | n | sinew pricklestuff |
| neutral | n | unsided |
| neutron | n | evendeal mote |
| New-English/ Inglish | n/adj | native English, choosing words purely of English origin |
| niche | n | nook |
| Nieder-Sachsen(Germany) | n | Nethersex |
| nitrogen | n | chokestuff |
| no | adv | nay |
| noble | aj | drightly |
| noble | n | atheling, highbrow, blue-blood, earl |
| noble | adj | ethel, athel |
| nocturnal | adj | night(ly), night-time |
| noise | n | din |
| noisy | adj | loud, dinsome |
| nolens volens | adv | willy-nilly |
| nominative (case) | n | underthrow namefall |
| nominate | vb | clepe |
| non- | pref | un-, |
| non obstante | prep, adv & conj | notwithstanding |
| non-existent | adj | beingless |
| nonsense | n | humbug, gammon |
| norm | n | rightline |
| nostalgia | n | homesickness, yoretrothenness, timesickness, yoresickness, yesterlove |
| notable | adj | worthy, well-known, widely known, famed, named, talked of |
| notch | n & vb | slit, groove |
| notice | vb | (take notice) heed |
| noticeable (to be) | vb | stand out |
| noting | vb | seeing, understanding, heeding |
| notophthalmus viridescens | n | eft |
| noun | n | nameword |
| nourish | vb | feed |
| novel | n | talebook |
| novelty | n | newness |
| November | n | bloodmonth, fogmonth, slaughtmonth |
| November | n | bloodmonth, fogmonth |
| novice | n | newling, beginner, fledgeling, newcomer, freshman, greenhorn, callower |
| nubile | adj | wedworthy |
| nuclear weapon | n | kernelweapon, uncleftweapon |
| nucleolus | n | pithbodlet |
| nucleon | n | pithmote |
| nucleus | n | kernel |
| nuisance | n | hinderling, besetter, harrier, hounder, gadfly |
| nullify | vb | override |
| number | n | scoring, tale, tal (c.f. O.E. "tæl", G. "Zahl") |
| number | v | tale, tal (from the noun) |
| numerous | adj | many |
| nurse | vb | care |
| nurse | n | carer |
| nursery | n | childyard, childergarden, kindergarden |
| nurture | vb | foster |
| nutritious | adj | healthful, wholesome |
