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noun, masculine

nid

/ni/

noun, masculine/ni/plural: nids

nest; Some people or dangerous things, hidden or not

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 nidThe swallow and the warbler, it's the forest that told me / The swallow and the warbler have already made their nests

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