Where does “nasal” come from?

nasal (French) comes from Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

nasal (French): nasal

Definitions

  1. nasal

Ancestry of “nasal”, step by step

nasal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin nāsālis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnāsālisnasal
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

via Medieval Latin nasalis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinnasalisnasal

Words derived from “nasal”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →