Neorxna

I love the sound of this word-- neh-orks'-nah. It's from Old English Neorxnawang (pronounced wong), which means Paradise, Elysian Fields. The only possibly related words I have found are ancient Greek neorgos= freshening, invigorating, and Old Norse noerast= to assume fresh vigor, recover, rally, which fit pretty well with Elysian Fields, I think. Noerast derives from noera= to nourish, invigorate. Other possible relatives-- Old English nerian= to save, preserve, protect, rescue; nergend= savior, protector (referring to Christ and God in the sources); and Middle High German nern= to rescue.

In the Shaggy Mythos (Sagenverden), I have used neorxna in Neorxnaweg (the Greening Way)-- the way of life of, the struggle toward, a steady-state ecological civilization, the Edhli-menning, and have also named Neorxna the Newolden Child, the neophyte with an old soul who is the herald and ambassador of the New World of the future.