köken: From earlier ἔνρινος (énrinos), with regressive assimilation; from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nose”) + -ος (-os). The phonetic sense is a semantic loan from French nasal. The Hellenistic Koine noun ἔρρινον (érrhinon, “sneazing medicine”) is semantically unrelated.
a nasal sound · a mora that contains a nasal sound, such as に (ni), み (mi), ん (n) or the historically nasalized vowel う (u) · synonym of 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”)
nasal (of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s Proto-Balto-Slavic *nasús Proto-Slavic *nosъ Old Polish nos Polish nos Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Polish nosowy From nos + -owy.