Where does “narine” come from?

narine (French) comes from Old French narine, from Vulgar Latin narina, from Latin nāris, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

narine (French): nostril

Definitions

  1. nostril

Ancestry of “narine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchnarinenostril
2Vulgar Latinnarina—
3Latinnārisnostril
4LatinnāsusThe nose
5Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
6Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →