Morpheme
N
Type
bound base
Denotation
birth, origin, be born
Etymology
Latin nāscī, from older gnāscī
Evidence
adnascent, antenatal, cognate, connascent, connate, enascent, innate, nada, nascent, nascently, natal, Natalia, Natalie, nation, national, nationalitarian, nationalitarianism, nationalitarians, nationality, nationalization, nationally, nationhood, nativar, native, nativehen, nativelike, natively, natives, nativisation, nativise, nativism, nativist, nativity, nativization, nativize, natural, naturalist, nature, naturism, nee, neonate, nonnative, postnatal, prenatal, renascence, renascent, renascently, renascible, seminative, subnascent, unnative, unnatural
Notes
native and naive are doublets
nascent and naissant are doublets
Modern Base Analysis
<Nationalite> denoting nationality
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal constructions -itarian
from minority (<N + -ate + -al + -i- + -ty>)
nationalitarian, nationalitarianism, nationalitarians
Doublet
Gn
See Also
Naiss, Gen(e) [Gene, Gen], Gene, Gene, Gene, Genu, Gener, Geni, Gent, Germ, Gn, Gonad, Gon(e) [Gone, Gon], -itarian
Homographs
n-, -n-, -n, -(e)n(e) [-en, -ne, -n], -(e)n [-en, -n], -(a)n(e) [-ane, -an, -n]
