different between wid vs nid

English

Etymology

Variant of with.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?d, IPA^(key): /w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Preposition

wid

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
   • 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1]

     “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”

   • 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, [2]

     Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.

   • 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [3]

     Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home

     Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,

     Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!

Related terms

• See with

Anagrams

• D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

Belizean Creole

Alternative forms

• wit

Preposition

wid

1. with

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?daz. Cognate with Old Frisian w?d, Old Saxon w?do and Old Dutch w?do, Old High German w?t, Old Norse víðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/

Adjective

w?d

1. wide, far

Declension

Derived terms

• w?ds?þ

Descendants

• Middle English: wid, wyd
  • English: wide
  • Scots: wid, wyd

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