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nied

Pronunciation: /ni͜yːd/

“nied” is an Old English word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. force, compulsion
  2. need as an abstract concept, distress
  3. a need or necessity for something
  4. a situation of distress or lack of something
  5. emergency
  6. the runic character ᚾ (/n/)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *naudi.

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