nest

英 [nest] 美[n?st]

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復(fù)數(shù):?nests;第三人稱單數(shù):?nests;過去式:?nested;過去分詞:?nested;現(xiàn)在分詞:?nesting;

nest 鳥巢，鳥窩，巢

來自古英語(yǔ)nest,來自PIE*nisdos,鳥巢，來自*ni,向下，詞源同beneath,*sed,坐，詞源同sit.即坐的地方，落腳的地方，引申詞義鳥巢，鳥窩。

nest: nest: [OE] Etymologically, a nest is a place for ‘sitting down’. It is a very ancient word, and traces its history all the way back to Indo- European *nizdo-, a compound formed from *ni ‘down’ (source of English beneath and nether) and *sed- (ancestor of English sit). From it came English nest (a word shared by German and Dutch), and also Latin nīdus ‘nest’, source of Old French niche ‘nest’ – whence English niche [17]. Nestle [OE] was derived from nest.
=> beneath, nestle, nether, sit
nest (n.): Old English nest "bird's nest, snug retreat," also "young bird, brood," from Proto-Germanic *nistaz (cognates: Middle Low German, Middle Dutch nest, German Nest), from PIE *nizdo- (cognates: Sanskrit nidah "resting place, nest," Latin nidus "nest," Old Church Slavonic gnezdo, Old Irish net, Welsh nyth, Breton nez "nest"), probably from *ni "down" + *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

Used since Middle English in reference to various accumulations of things (such as a nest of drawers, early 18c.). Nest egg "retirement savings" is from 1700, originally "a real or artificial egg left in a nest to induce the hen to go on laying there" (c. 1600).
nest (v.): Old English nistan "to build nests," from Proto-Germanic *nistijanan, from the source of nest (n.). The modern verb is perhaps a new formation in Middle English from the noun. Related: Nested; nesting.

1. As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow.: 兩只小鳥一出殼就離開了巢穴。

2. The nest contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.: 窩里有8只還沒長(zhǎng)毛、眼睛尚未睜開的小老鼠。