The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*néh₂us
- Latin · derived fromnāvicula
- Late Latin · derived fromnāviculāris“boat shaped”
- Middle French · borrowed fromnaviculaire
- English todaynavicular
Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.
Words from the same roots
Latinnāvicula all →
naviculapseudonavicula
Proto-Indo-European*néh₂us all →
navynavigatenacelle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.