neorxnawang

Etymology
From +. Many attempts have been made to explain the etymology of neorxna, but little agreement has been reached; the available evidence probably does not permit a definite answer.


 * An early attempt at etymologising the first element of this word is 's 18th-century derivation from an adjective, from . However, neither the medial or the final  can be explained without straining the bounds of formal plausibility. Additionally, one would expect  to be negated with , not ; compare e.g..
 * Roberts derives from, the genitive plural of hypothetical , from , variant of ; connecting this to the "reeds and rushes" of Isaiah 35:7.
 * Gostenfell instead considers it to contain a compound of, with initial n- through . However, this hypothesis would require a level of phonetic reduction rarely seen in Old English.
 * A suggestion once "almost universally approved" connects and an unattested cognate of, this would form , which could reduce to neorxen- without undue difficulty, but  is entirely isolated within Germanic, making the supposition of an Old English cognate very risky.
 * For discussion of the innumerable other proposed etymologies, see the references listed below.

Noun

 * 1) Paradise.