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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Clipping of niggard. Unrelated to nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) niggard

Etymology 2

Clipping of nigger.

Noun

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) nigger
   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

Verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur) to behave as a stereotypical black person

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, gin, ing

Volapük

Noun

nig (nominative plural nigs)

1. ink

Declension

Derived terms

• nigiär

Yapese

Noun

nig

1. fish

English

Etymology

Noun

nid

1. (linguistics) Initialism of noun inanimate dependent.

See also

• na
• nad
• ni

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni/
• Homophones: ni, nids, nie, nient, nies

Noun

nid m (plural nids)

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

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

Derived terms

• nid d'amour
• nid de poule
• petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid

Further reading

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

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n???d?/

Noun

nid

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

Norman

Etymology

From Latin n?dus.

Noun

nid m (plural nids)

1. (Guernsey) nest

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse níð, from Proto-Germanic *n?þ?, sense 2 being a semantic loan from German Neid. Doublet of ni-.

Noun

nid n (definite singular nidet, uncountable)

1. (archaic or historical) mockery, defamation, shame
2. (literary) envy, hatred, animosity

Derived terms

• nidsk
• nidskrift n
• nidvise f

Related terms

• niding m
• nidstong f

References

• “nid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *n?þ?. Cognate with Old English n?þ (English nithe), Old Norse níð.

Noun

n?d m

1. envy
2. hate
3. malice

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: n?t
  • German: Neid
  • Luxembourgish: Näid

References

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?d/

Adverb

nid

1. not

References