nativenative

Native comes from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus ‘innate’, from nātus ‘born’, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to beget’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-¹‘to produce, beget’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gnāskōr¹‘to be born’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnāscor²‘to be born’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnātus³‘born’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnātīvus³‘innate, inborn’
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400natif³
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500natif³
8. Englishearliest quotation 1509native³

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin nascor
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin natus
3. ³ Wiktionary, English native
4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1509, Stephen Hawes, Of the five internall wittes.: “In my natyf language I wyl not opres, /…”.