nausea

Etymology

Recorded from the early 15th century in the sense “vomiting”,^[1] borrowed from Latin nausea (“seasickness”),^[1][2] from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “seasickness”),^[3][4] from naûs “ship”,^[3][5] from Proto-Indo-European *nau- (“boat”).^[1]

Despite its etymology, the English word seems never to have been restricted to seasickness.^[1] It displaced native Old English wlǣtta.^[4]

References

1. [1] [2] [3] [4] Harper, Douglas, Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
2. [1] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster
3. [1] [2] Simpson, J. A.; Weiner, E. S. C., eds. (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. [1] [2] Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
5. [1] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Boston: Houghton Mifflin