Where does “nasal” come from?

nasal (Spanish) comes from Late Latin nasalis, from Latin nāsus, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

nasal (Spanish): nasal; nasal, nasal consonant

Definitions

  1. nasal; nasal, nasal consonant

Ancestry of “nasal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinnasalis—
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

Words derived from “nasal”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →