nose

nose
\ \ [OE] Nose is the English member of a widespread family of ‘nose’-words that trace their ancestry back to Indo-European *nas-. This has produced Latin nāsus (source of English nasal [17]), Sanskrit nás, Lithuanian nósis, and Russian, Polish, Czech, and Serbo-Croat nos. Its Germanic descendant has differentiated into German nase, Dutch neus, Swedish näsa, Danish næse, and English nose. Nozzle [17] and nuzzle [15] are probably derived from nose, and nesspromontory, headland’ [OE] (now encountered only in place-names) is related to it.
\ \ Cf.NASAL, NESS, NOSTRIL, NOZZLE, NUZZLE

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