Glossary — N
- namaste
- ("the most graceful substitute" for a handshake, "slight
bow, hands clasped near the heart as in prayer") (language=Hindi)
[Lance Morrow, TIME, November 8,
1999]
- narangah
- orange (language=Samskrta); this word probably evolved with the
fruit's trade pattern, moving westward, being called "narang" in
Farsi, then "naranja" in Español, and finally "orange"
in Français, which became the name of the town in southeast France which
was once the center of the orange trade (or vice-verse, the town took the
name, then the fruit took its name) [Rebecca Jones, "Wacky
Questions" column in the Rocky
Mountain News, 15-May-98]
- ndito
- young girl (language=Maasai)
- Nederlandic
- the "Dutch language, the Netherlandic (Netherlandish) language as
spoken in The Netherlands, together with the same language in northern
Belgium, which is popularly called Flemish. In the European Middle Ages, the
language was called Dietsc, or Duutsc, historically equivalent to German
Deutsch and meaning simply "language of the people," as contrasted
with Latin, which was the language of religion and learning. The form Duutsc
was borrowed into English and gives modern "Dutch." The official
name of the language is Nederlands, or Netherlandic. In The Netherlands it
is also called Hollands (Hollandish), reflecting the fact that the standard
language is based largely on the dialect of the old province of Holland (now
North Holland and South Holland). English DUTCH, or FLEMISH, Netherlandic
NEDERLANDS, Flemish VLAAMS, a West Germanic language that is the national
language of The Netherlands and, with [Français], one of the two official
languages of Belgium. Although speakers of English usually call the
Netherlandic of The Netherlands "Dutch" and the Netherlandic of
Belgium "Flemish," they are actually the same language."
[Encyclopedia Britannica]
- Negroponte cage
- virtual equivalent of a Faraday cage, isolating its occupants from all
forms of gateway/Em-Deh (language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon); probably based on carbon tubules or fullerenes
- Neighborhood Fences
- the virtual equivalent of talking over your backyard fence to your
neighbor, only a whole neighborhood shares a single fence; a form of
symmetric midcasting, whereby people engage in some purposeful broadcasting
to each other, as opposed to the passive one-way broadcasting of television,
coined by John Seely Brown, director at Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research
Center (see article in Wall
Street Journal titled "Will People Work to Keep Up With
Developing Technology?" by G. Christian Hill). "You hook into
people, you're continuously in contact, you're continuously broadcasting to
each other. It's a new form of community." [The
Denver Post, Business Section] (language=Yeibichai/Em-Deh)
- nem
- no (language=Magyar) [Magyar-Angol, Angol-Magyar Szótár
(Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian Dictionary), edited by Tamás Magay et
alia, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest,
1972]
- nem, megyek el
- no, I won't (language=Magyar) [Magyar-Angol, Angol-Magyar Szótár
(Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian Dictionary), edited by Tamás Magay et
alia, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest,
1972]
- nien-hao
- reign-period title (language=Zhongwen);
a method of dating events introduced by Emperor Han Wen Ti of the Former Han
dynasty (206BCE>8CE) in which an emperor "proclaimed a new nien-hao
at the beginning of the year following his accession .... A typical date ...
might read, 'the third year of the Wan-li reign period' (Wan-li san nien)."
[Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www=britannica.com]
In the space-time continuum of Midway for Combines, the capital of
the Planet Regency where monarchies of all varieties are honored, practiced,
and taught.
- nihidahnidoolda
- come back and meet us again; complete the circle and return to your roots
(language=Diné; pronunciation=knee-he-dah-nih-dole-dah)
- Nihon
- the Japanese name for Japan; also "Nippon" depending on whether
you hear the middle consonant as an "h" or a "p" (language=Kyotsu-go)
- Niner
- a period of time, particularly someone's age, between 4 and 31 Gë
years, inclusive; see also telling
time (language=Yeibichai/telling
time)
- novio
- sweetheart (language=Español)
