The story
- Latin · derived fromnutriō“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”
- Old French · derived fromnouriss-
- Middle English · inherited fromnorischen
- English todaynourish
From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).
Words from the same roots
Latinnutriō all →
nutritive
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.