myEtymology.com: English etymology of nationality

Etymology of the English word nationality

the English word nationality

using the English suffix -ity

derived from the English word national

derived from the English word nation

derived from the Old French word nation

derived from the Latin word natio (nation, people; birth)

derived from the Latin word natus (birth; age, years; born, arisen; made; son; child; children)

derived from the Latin word nasci (be born, begotten, formed; be produced spontaneously, come into existence, being)

derived from the Latin word nascere

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *genə-

using the English suffix -al

derived from the Latin suffix -alis