Where does “accentless” come from?
accentless (English) comes from English accent, from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accentless (English): Speaking without an accent; Of a word, having no...
Definitions
- Speaking without an accent; Of a word, having no...
Ancestry of “accentless”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accent | A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a... |
| 2 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 3 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 4 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 5 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 6 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 7 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 8 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 9 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 10 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 11 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |