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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

  1. Without an accent

Ancestry of “accentlessly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaccentlessSpeaking without an accent; Of a word, having no...
2EnglishaccentA higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a...
3Frenchaccentaccent, manner or tone of speech; an accent...
4GermanAkzentaccent
5Italianaccentostress; accent; tone
6Russianакцентstress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress
7Spanishacentoaccent
8Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
9Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
10Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
11LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
12Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
13Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
14Proto-Italic-ējō—
15Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
16Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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