nid (pluralnids)
- Alternative form ofnide(“nest of pheasants”)
1884, William Carnegie,Practical game preserving, page15:Owing to the size of the enclosure, most of the hens will commence their laying and nesting operations in the same or similar manner to unrestrained birds, forming theirnids, and proceeding in the usual way. The aim of the mode of introducing pheasants here described is[…]
nid
- (linguistics)Initialism ofnouninanimatedependent.
Old Norseníð, fromProto-Germanic*nīþą. Cognate ofGothic𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸(neiþ),Faroeseníð,Icelandicníð,GermanNeid,Dutchnijd.
nid (singular definiteniddet,not used in plural form)
- (archaic or poetic). feeling of intensehatred or strongenvy.
Inherited fromOld Frenchnid, fromLatinnīdus, fromProto-Italic*nizdos(“nest”), fromProto-Indo-European*nisdós(“nest”).
nid m (pluralnids)
- 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 leurnid- The swallow and the warbler, it's the forest that told me / The swallow and the warbler have already made theirnests
- (military) Some people or dangerous things, hidden or not
Nid de mitrailleuses- machine gunnest
nid
- inflection ofnead:
- vocative/genitivesingular
- nominative/dativeplural
FromLatinnīdus.
nid m
- nest
FromLatinnīdus.
nid m (pluralnids)
- (Guernsey)nest
FromOld Norseníð, fromProto-Germanic*nīþą, sense 2 being asemantic loan fromGermanNeid.Doublet ofni-.
nid n (definite singularnidet,uncountable)
- (archaic or historical)mockery,defamation,shame
- (literary)envy,hatred,animosity
- “nid” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.
FromProto-Germanic*nīþą. Cognate withOld Englishnīþ,Old Norseníð.
nīd m
- envy
- hate
- malice
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
nid m (invariable)(Bassa Romagna)
- nest
Inherited fromOld Norseníð, fromProto-Germanic*nīþą. Cognate ofGothic𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸(neiþ),GermanNeid,Dutchnijd.
nid n
- (archaic or archaizing)scornfulmockery;belittling,disparaging
Mostly as part of compounds.
Fromni with the same meaning, perhaps with addition ofyd(affirmative particle).[1]
nid
- (formal)not(used before a word or phrase that has been moved before the main verb for emphasis)
2022 October 12, “Fêpio ac ymddygiad gwael yn straen sylweddol ar athrawon”, inBBC Cymru Fyw[1]:“Nid yma i gosbi mae athrawon,” meddai pennaeth Bro Myrddin- “Teachers arenot here to punish,” said the head of Bro Myrddin [School]
- (literary)not(used before a vowel)
- ^R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nid”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^Morris Jones, John (1913)A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press,§ 51 vi
nid on the Lombard Wiktionary.Wiktionarylmo