nes-

I. nes-¹

To return safely home.

1. harness, from Old French harneis, harness, possibly from a Germanic source akin to Old English, Old High German (in composition), and Old Norse nest, food for a journey, from Germanic *nes-tam.

2. Suffixed o-grade form *nos-to-. nostalgia, from Greek nostos, a return home.

 

[Pokorny nes- 766.]

  II. nes-²

Oblique cases of the personal pronoun of the first person plural. For the nominative see we-.

1. Zero-grade form *n̥s-. us, from Old English ūs, us (accusative), from Germanic *uns.

2. Suffixed (possessive) zero-grade form *n̥s-ero-. our, ours, from Old English ūser, ūre, our, from Germanic *unsara-.

3. O-grade form *nos-, with suffixed (possessive) form *nos-t(e)ro-. Nostratic, nostrum; paternoster, from Latin nōs, we, and noster, our.

 

[Pokorny 3. ne- 758.]

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