Irish núna (“hunger”) and Tocharian B naut- (“to disappear; be destroyed”). *<span class="searchmatch">navь</span> f corpse deceased * The second form occurs in languages that contract early...
*nā́ˀwis f death Latgalian: nuove Latvian: nāve Lithuanian: nõvis Old Prussian: nowis (“body, flesh”) Proto-Slavic: *<span class="searchmatch">navь</span> (see there for further descendants)...
ultimately from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *ə₂en- / *ə₂n-. Machek alternatively links it to <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">navь</span> (“death”), ultimately from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-...
with beginning a new month –, the term may actually derive from *za- + *<span class="searchmatch">navь</span> (“dead man, corpse; evil spectre”) + *-ětь, since broomrape is traditionally...