Where does “nación” come from?
nación (Asturian) comes from Spanish nación, from Latin nātiō, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵn̥h₁tós, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
nación (Asturian): birth; nation
Ancestry of “nación”, step by step