Where does “naïz” come from?

naïz (Norman) comes from Old French nés, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

naïz (Norman): nose

Definitions

  1. nose

Ancestry of “naïz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchnésnose; inflection of nef: ## oblique plural ##...
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →