nest English · revision 13148

− It is [[inh|ang|nest|t=bird's nest, snug retreat]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from Proto-Germanic *nistaz^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) (source also of Dutch nest and German [[m|de|Nest]], but not found in Scandinavian or Gothic),^(Etymonline) from PIE [[ine-pro|*nizdós|alt=*nizdo-]],^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) source also of Latin [[m|la|nidus]], Old Irish net, Welsh nyth, Old Church Slavonic gnězdo and Sanskrit [[m|sa|नीड|tr=nīḍa|t=resting place, nest]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) It is a compound of *ni, down (as in [[nether]]), and *sed-, to sit (see [[sit]]),^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) so that a nest was originally a sitting-down place.^(Cresswell 2021)