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What is the base word for nation and nature?
  

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Anonymous What is the base word for nation and nature? It depends how far back you want to go. The Indo-European root is gene or gen .

  • Anonymous What is the base word for nation and nature?
  • It depends how far back you want to go.
  • The Indo-European root is gene or gen .
  • To give birth, beget.
  • It occurs in Latin in the forms gna and na , giving rise to the words naive, nascent, natal, nation, native, nature, nee, Noel, agnate, cognate, connate, enate, innate, neonate, renaissance, benign, malign, pregnant, and puny .
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AnonymousWhat is the base word for nation and nature?
It depends how far back you want to go.

The Indo-European root is gene or gen. To give birth, beget.

It occurs in Latin in the forms gna and na, giving rise to the words

naive, nascent, natal, nation, native, nature, nee, Noel, agnate, cognate, conn

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