Ness

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Old English næs, perhaps reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse nes ; related to Old English nasu ‘nose’.

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From Middle English nesse (in placenames), from Old English ness, næss, from Proto-Germanic *nasją(“promontory; ness”); cognate with Middle Low German nes, Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs. Related to nose.

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ness (n.)

"point of land running into the sea," obsolete except in place names (Holderness, Dungeness, etc.) and surnames, Old English næs (West Saxon, Northumbrian), nes (Mercian, Kentish), "a promontory," related to nasu "nose" (from PIE root *nas- "nose"). Cognate with and probably partly from Old Norse nes, Danish næs; also Swedish näs, Middle Dutch nesse.