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English word native comes from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (Begotten, produced.), Proto-Italic *gnāskōr (Be born.), Latin -ivus (Adjective suffix.), German nativ (Native.)
*ǵn̥h₁tós (Proto-Indo-European)
Begotten, produced.
*gnāskōr (Proto-Italic)
Be born.
-ivus (Latin)
Adjective suffix.
nativ (German)
Native.
*gnātos (Proto-Italic)
gnascor (Latin)
natus (Latin)
Son (of plants) growth, growing. Son, birth, age, years.
nativus (Latin)
(grammar, of words) original, primitive, primary. Created, made. Inborn, innate, imparted by birth. Natural, native, made by nature and not artificial.
natif (French)
Native (characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin). Original. Raw; in its original state.
natif (Old French)
native (English)
(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 [...]