Sandra Lean offers these notes on the letters NID
Bio 2. Constance O Fallaburr named one of her two houses 'le nid' [French for
'nest'] after the initials of Nathan Isole Dermontier. Bio 2 maintains
Dermontier threw himself from either the Eiffel Tower or Les Invalides in 1870
(Eiffel Tower not built until 1889).
Bio 62 claims Dermontier is a Parisian pioneer aviator and one of the VUE's ten
pseudonymous identities.
Bio 78 informs us it was not Dermontier (nor the Welsh baritone Van Richardt)
but the Austrian clothing-manufacturer Richelt who jumped to his death
off the Eiffel Tower in April 1911. (Alan Andres, the Senior Overseas VFI Scholar, has confirmed this.)
Bio 28 makes reference to a blue salon car, registration number NID 301, the
driver of which had been the victim of birdstroke. ('A swan, maybe two swans,
had smashed, or been smashed, into the windscreen'. [We are now in ZOO territory.].)
Bio 41 makes reference to a white van, registration number NID 92 which appears
to have run down the subject of bio 41. I seem to remember the van is inscribed
with the word CROW.
Sean Redlitz adds:
English words
derived from the latin 'nidus' [nest]:
- nidicolous: (adj) reared for a time in a nest; sharing the nest of
another kind of animal.
- nidification: (n) the act, process or technique of building a nest.
- nidifugous (adj) leaving the nest soon after hatching
- nidus (n - pl nidi or niduses) a nest or breeding place; a place where
something originates, develops or is located.
All of which leads me to wonder what the proper word would be for "the
state of having fallen from a nest," as in the nursery rhyme ROCK-A-BYE BABY?