v.
Gaw pp. nayted; Erk pp. *naityd; WA naite, nayte, pres. 3 sg. naytis, naytes, nates, imp. pl. naytis, naytes
‘use; exert; name, mention, repeat, recite’
(Modern English nait)cp. OIcel neyta ‘to use, enjoy, consume’ < PGmc *nautjan-; cp. OFris nēta, MDu noten (*naut- is an Ablaut variant of the root *neut- of the st. v. represented by OE nēotan, OIcel njóta, Go niutan etc. ‘to use, enjoy’). Used in a range of senses in ME, including ‘use; practice; need’
PGmc Ancestor
*nautjan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
neyta ‘to use, enjoy, consume’
(ONP )
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Icel neyta, Norw nøyta, ODan nøde, OSw nøta, Sw nöta, Gotl noyta
OE Cognate
nēotan 'to use, enjoy, employ'
Phonological and morphological markers
ON /ey/ < PGmc */au/ by front mutation
Summary category
A1ac
Mainly N and alliterative; in the sense ‘repeat, recite’ (MED otherwise records only St.Erk. 119).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 65; Cl 531; Erk 119; WA 2468, 2518, 2968 etc.
On its meaning in Gaw 65, see TGD 65n. All editors emend Erk MS <nattyd> to *naityd (see Peterson 119n).