Word Origin Summary

*-nós is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• -ան

  Armenian · derived from

• -ьнъ

  Old Church Slavonic · inherited from

• 史蒂芬

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• à jour

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• supplicate

  English · inherited from

• ajournement

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• -νος

  Ancient Greek · inherited from

• Diana

  English · derived from

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