Word Origin Summary

Ni-Vanuatu is attested in Bislama. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. néFrenchborrowed from
2. *gnātosProto-Italicinherited from
3. nātusLatininherited from
4. néFrenchinherited from
5. *ǵn̥h₁tósProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ni-Vanuatu

  English · borrowed from

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