a brook or a valley through which a stream flows; _e.g._ Nantmel (the honey brook); Sych-nant (dried-up brook); Nancemillin (the valley of the mill), in Wales; Dewffneynt (the deep valley) was the ancient British name of Devonshire; Levenant (smooth stream); Nant-frangon, _i.e._ _Nant-yr-a-franc_ (the beavers’ valley); Nantglyn (the glen of the brook); Nant-y-Gwrtheyren (Vortigern’s valley), in Wales; Nans, in Cornwall; also in Cornwall--Penant (the head of the valley), and Cornant (a brook); Nantwich, in Cheshire (the salt-works, _wich_, on the brook or stream, _i.e._ the Weaver); Nantua (in a valley of the Alps); Nantes named from the Namnetes (dwellers in the valley); Mochnant (the swift brook); Nannau (the brooks), in Wales; Nangle, a bay on the coast of Wales, perhaps Nant-gel or cel (a secret corner)--the Rev. J. James. Nevern, a parish in Wales, for _Nant-ynfer_ (the brook of the confluence); Nancy (the valley dwellings); Nans, Nant, with the same meaning, in France; Nanteuil (the valley of the fountain)--_v._ ŒUIL; Nantberis (St. Peris’s brook). [Sidenote: NASS (Ger.),] moist; _e.g._ Nassau (the moist meadow); Nassenfeld (moist field); Nassenhuben (the huts in moist land); Nassenbeuren (the dwelling in moist land). [Sidenote: NAVA (Basque),] a plain; _e.g._ Nava-de-los-Oteros (the plain of the heights); Nava-hermosa (beautiful plain); Navarre and Navarreux (the plain among hills); Navarette (the plain at the foot of the hill); Paredes-de-nava (the houses of the plain). [Sidenote: NEDER, NIEDER, NEER (Teut. and Scand.),] lower; _e.g._ Netherlands (the lower lands); Netherby (lower town); Niederlahnstein (the fortress on the lower R. Lahn); Nederheim, Nederwyk (lower dwellings). [Sidenote: NEMET (Celtic),] a sacred grove, cognate with the Lat. _nemus_ and the Grk. _nemos_; _e.g._ Nemours, anc. _Nemoracum_ (the place of the sacred wood or grove); Nanterre, also in France, anc. _Nemetodurum_ (the sacred grove on the waters); Nismes, anc. _Nemausus_ (the place in the grove); Augustonemetum (the splendid place of the grove), being the ancient name of Clermont; Nemetacum, the ancient name of Arras; Nemea (the place of the grove), in Greece. [Sidenote: NEU (Ger.), NEWYDD (Cym.-Cel.), NUADH (Gadhelic), NOWY and NAU (Sclav.),]