Staff N of the Old English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Forshortenings.
| Quickened | Old English | Kind | Meaning |
| namecouth | namcúþ | adj | well-known |
| naft | næft | n | poverty |
| nafty | næftig | adj | poor |
| narrowneed | nearonēd | n | urgent need |
| narrowsorrow | nearosorg | n | crushing distress/sorrow |
| neach | hnǣcan | vb | to destroy, crush |
| nease | nesan | vb | to escape from, survive, be saved |
| neb | nebbian | vb | to retort, rebuke |
| needbebode | nīdbebod | n | to command |
| needbetharf | nīdbeþearf | adj | necessary |
| needbusy | nīdbysig | adj | distressed |
| needfarer | nīdfara | n | fugitive, exile |
| needhood | nīdhād | n | force, compulsion |
| needheamed | nīdhǣmed | n | rape |
| neediwald | nīdgeweald | n | tyranny |
| needling | nīdling | n | slave |
| needneam | nīdnǣm | n | seizure, rapine |
| needtharfly | níedþearflic | adj | necessary |
| needtharfness | nīdþearfness | n | necessity |
| needthew | nīdþēow | n | slave |
| needthewy | nýdþéowigan | vb | to reduce to slavery |
| neep | nēopan | vb | to engulf, overwhelm |
| neer | nerian | vb | to save, rescue |
| neerend | nergend | n | saviour, preserver |
| neese | nēosian | vb | to search out, inspect; to visit, seek |
| neeten | nīten | n | small animal, beast; cattle |
| neethe | nēþan | vb | to dare, risk, venture |
| nevil | nifol | adj | dark (foggy, misty) |
| nithe | nīð | n | spite, enmity |
| nither | niðerian | vb | to depress, abase, bring low |
| nitten | nyten | adj | ignorant |
| nittenness | nytennes | n | ignorance |
| nooth | nōþ | n | daring, courage |
| noss | hnossian | vb | to beat, to strike |
| nough | hnāh | adj | bent down, low; lowly, humble; abject, mean; poor |
| noughtly | nāhtlic | adj | worthless, of no avail |
| noughtship | nāhtscipe | n | worthlessness |
| nowend | nōwend | n | skipper, mariner, sailor |
| nye | hnīgan | vb | to bend downwards, bow down, curtsey |