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[Richard Cook]

Gedney says "nuea"/"nü" is a Thai word for 'north/northern' ... looks 
as if the syllable in this name gets written many different ways ... 
le, lu, lü, lüe, lue, nü, nüa, nüe, neua, nuea ... at least it's 
possibly the same syllable.

Here are some references:

Gedney, William J. 1976. "Notes on Tai Nuea". In _Tai Linguistics in 
Honor of Fang-kuei Li. (Gething et al. eds.) Bangkok. [62-102].

Morez, L. N. 1978. _Jazyk Ly_. Moskow: Nauka.

Seree Weroha. 1974. _Tai Lue / English Dictionary_. 2 Vol. Univ. 
Michigan.