Where does “nations” come from?
nations (French) comes from French nation, from Middle French nation, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiō, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵn̥h₁tós — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
nations (French): plural of nation
Ancestry of “nations”, step by step