Where does “nutant” come from?

nutant (Latin) comes from Latin nuto, from Latin nuo, from Proto-Indo-European new- — new; to nod, assent to.

nutant (Latin): third-person plural present active indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of...

Ancestry of “nutant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinnutoI nod; I signal or gesture to give a command; I...
2LatinnuoI nod
3Proto-Indo-Europeannew-new; to nod, assent to
Every word from Proto-Indo-European new- →Every word from Latin nuo →Every word from Latin nuto →