From Latin 'narrare' (to tell), from 'gnarus' (knowing), from PIE *gneh3- — narrating is literally 'making known.'
To give a spoken or written account of events; to provide a commentary for a film, broadcast, or performance.
From Latin narrare (to tell, relate, recount), from gnarus (knowing, acquainted with), from PIE *gno- (to know). This connects narrate to a vast family: Latin cognoscere (to get to know), Greek gnosis (knowledge), English know and can (to be able — originally to know how), and Sanskrit jna (wisdom). The root sense is that to narrate is to make