Where does “accentlessly” come from?
accentlessly (English) comes from English accentless, from English accent, from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accentlessly (English): Without an accent
Definitions
- Without an accent
Ancestry of “accentlessly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accentless | Speaking without an accent; Of a word, having no... |
| 2 | English | accent | A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a... |
| 3 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 4 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 5 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 6 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 7 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 8 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 9 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 10 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 11 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 12 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |