The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
nes-1
DEFINITION:
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.)
