n.e.s.

T aint bin a mont' sence I brung you a great big hornet-nes', en yer you is axin' dat.

Wn-nes-tou, the White Buffalo; a medicine-man or doctor, with his medicine or mystery shield.

From this nes came, naturally enough, the old northern naos or ns, whence the Dan.

Our termination -ness, then, is the old northern or Icelandic nes, the parent of the Dan.

Nes neauer fule godd leof ah pouerte unorneschipe beon him licwure.