The story
- Spanish · derived fromnido“nest”
- Tagalog · borrowed fromnido
- English todaynido soup
From Tagalog nido (“edible bird's nest”) + soup. Tagalog nido itself is from Spanish nido (“nest”). See also El Nido in Palawan, where the edible bird's nest is historically harvested from by a Busyador.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.