nid

nid

1. (linguistics) noun inanimate dependent

nid (plural nid)

1. (Britain, slang) pound sterling, quid

• na
• nad
• ni

• DIN, Din, IDN, IND, Ind, Ind., din, in d., ind.

From Old French, from Latin nīdus, from Proto-Italic *nizdos (“nest”), from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”).

• IPA^(key): /ni/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: ni, nids, nie, nient, nies

nid m (plural nids)

1. nest
   • 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".

     L'hirondelle et la fauvette, c'est la forêt qui me l'a dit / L'hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (military) Some people or dangerous things, hidden or not.
   • Nid de mitrailleuses / machine gun nest
   • Nid d'espions / spy's nest

• “nid” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /n̠ʲɪdʲ/

nid

1. inflection of nead:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

From Latin nidus.

nid m (plural nids)

1. (Guernsey) nest

From Proto-Germanic *nīþą. Cognate with Old English nīþ (English nithe), Old Norse níð.

nīd m

1. envy
2. hate
3. malice

• Middle High German: nīt
  • German: Neid
  • Luxembourgish: Näid

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

• IPA^(key): /nɪd/[1]

nid

1. not