Translation
nest
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Word origin
A Germanic borrowing, from German Nest and English nest. Behind both stands an old Indo-European compound meaning roughly 'sit down', which is a fair description of what a nest is for.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- nest
- English cognates
- nest, nestle
Examples
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Four eggs lay in the nest.
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The birds built a nest under the roof.
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The young bird left the nest.
is one of the Germanic roots in a vocabulary that is mostly Romance, and it kept its shape and its meaning intact. The verb is to nest, o is a nesting box, and the figurative use travels as it does in English: a is a den of thieves. For an animal's hole in the ground you want or instead.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 10: nesto, aparato, registri and 7 more words.