Where does “kantista” come from?

kantista (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano kanta, from Spanish canta, from Spanish cantar, from Latin cantāre, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

kantista (Cebuano): a singer

Definitions

  1. a singer

Ancestry of “kantista”, step by step

kantista traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cebuano kanta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanokantaa song; to sing; to fellate; to perform oral sex
2Spanishcantasong; singing
3Spanishcantarto sing; A type of shanty or popular song
4Latincantāre
5Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
6LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
7Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
8Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
9Proto-Italic-ējō
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
11Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via English Kantist

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishKantistA Kantianist
2EnglishistA practitioner or supporter of an ism
3English-istAdded to words to form nouns denoting
4Old French-iste
5Latin-ista-ist; one who practises or believes
6Ancient Greek-ιστήςAlternative form of -τής; -ist
7Ancient Greek-τήςAppended to verbs to form agent nouns
8Proto-Hellenic-tās
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eoEvery word from Latin caneo