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Where does “naze” come from?

naze (Mauritian Creole) comes from French nager, from Old French nagier, from Latin nāvigō, from Latin nāvis, from Proto-Italic naus, from German hinaus, from German aus, from Old High German ūz — out, outward.

naze (Mauritian Creole): to swim

Definitions

  1. to swim

Ancestry of “naze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnagerto swim
2Old Frenchnagierto sail; to cross water; to sail; to swim
3Latinnāvigō—
4Latinnāvis—
5Proto-Italicnaus—
6Germanhinausout
7Germanausout; over; finished; done; up; off
8Old High Germanūzout
9Proto-West Germanic*ūt—
10Proto-Germanicūtout, outward
11Proto-Indo-Europeanúdout, outward
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