English word native comes from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (Begotten, produced.), Proto-Italic *gnāskōr (Be born.), Latin -ivus (Adjective suffix.), German nativ (Native.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*ǵn̥h₁tós | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | Begotten, produced. |
*gnāskōr | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | Be born. |
-ivus | Latin (lat) | Adjective suffix. |
nativ | German (de) | Native. |
*gnātos | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | |
gnascor | Latin (lat) | |
natus | Latin (lat) | Son (of plants) growth, growing. Son, birth, age, years. |
nativus | Latin (lat) | (grammar, of words) original, primitive, primary. Created, made. Inborn, innate, imparted by birth. Natural, native, made by nature and not artificial. |
natif | French (fr) | Native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin). Original. Raw; in its original state. |
natif | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | |
native | English (en) | (in particular) A person of aboriginal stock, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).. A native speaker.. A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. (biology, of a species) Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species [...] |