Where does “accordeonfile” come from?
accordeonfile (Dutch) comes from Dutch accordeon, from French accordéon, from German Akkordeon, from German Akkord, from French accord, from French accorder, from Middle French accorder, from Old French acorder — in.
accordeonfile (Dutch): heavy stop-and-start traffic
Definitions
- heavy stop-and-start traffic
Ancestry of “accordeonfile”, step by step
accordeonfile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch accordeon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | accordeon | accordion |
| 2 | French | accordéon | accordion |
| 3 | German | Akkordeon | accordion |
| 4 | German | Akkord | chord; piecework |
| 5 | French | accord | chord; agreement; permission, consent |
| 6 | French | accorder | to grant; to link to, to be related to; to make... |
| 7 | Middle French | accorder | to agree |
| 8 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 9 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 10 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Dutch file
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | file | traffic jam; queue; file |
| 2 | English | filé | A spicy herb made from the dried and ground... |
| 3 | French | filé | past participle of filer; simple or twisted... |
| 4 | French | filer | to spin; to thread through; to spin a thread |
| 5 | Latin | fīlāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | fīlum | thread, string, filament, fiber |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fī(s)lom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- | — |