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ninho

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Galician

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Noun

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ninho m (plural ninhos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of niño

Further reading

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  • “ninho”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Portuguese

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Aves num ninho ― Birds in a nest

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-?
Proto-Indo-European *ní
Proto-Indo-European *sed-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *nisdós
Proto-Italic *nizdos
Latin nīdus
Old Galician-Portuguese *nio
Portuguese ninho

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *nio, *nĩo; from Latin nīdus, from Proto-Italic *nizdos, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós.

    Cognate with Galician niño, Spanish nido, Catalan niu, French nid, and Italian nido.

    Pronunciation

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    • Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):(file)
    • Rhymes: -iɲu, (Brazil) -ĩɲu
    • Hyphenation: ni‧nho

    Noun

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    ninho m (plural ninhos)

    1. nest (bird-built structure)
    2. (by extension) nest (place used by any animal for depositing eggs and hatching young)
      Synonyms: covil, toca
    3. (figurative, endearing) home
      Synonyms: abrigo, castelo, lar
    4. (Brazil, colloquial) ellipsis of leite ninho (“powdered milk”)
      • 2016 November 6, Yuri Ramires, quoting Emilaine Magnanti, “Bióloga "se encontra" na confeitaria e cria 30 tipos de brigadeiro”, in MidiaNews‎[1], Cuiabá, archived from the original on 7 November 2016:
        “Os que mais saem são o brigadeiro tradicional, de ninho com nutella, de churros e beijinho”, lembrou.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Kabuverdianu: ninhu

    Further reading

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