Where does “nacho” come from?

nacho (Finnish) comes from Spanish nacho, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

nacho (Finnish): nacho food

Definitions

  1. nacho food

Ancestry of “nacho”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishnachonacho
2LatinnāsusThe nose
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →