Where does “naïf” come from?
naïf (Old French) comes from Latin nātīvus, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵn̥h₁tós, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
Ancestry of “naïf”, step by step
Words derived from “naïf”