adj. noble, excellent? perh. orig. a variant form of núa (O.Ir. noe). v p m. a deu nó `o glorious (?) gods', CCath. 4086 (no v.l.). anmann tri mac Neimid no | Ceasarb, Luamh ┐ Luachro, Leb. Gab. i 140.1 (glossed .i. dna nō oirrderc) = dna, LL 8a39 , nua, BB 31a15 . go noam som suí, ZCP iii 223 § 6 (Amra Senáin), glossed .i. [er]draci som c[ach] suí more illus- trious than all sages; aurdarc som cach sui, LB 241a27 . Cf. also the compd. nó-ḟis(s): srotha noḟeas (.i. imad an ḟesa), ZCP v 488 § 9 (see 1 noes), and the npr. m. Nógus, g s. Nogusa, BB 76b8 , 15 . See nódh.