Where does “accentologist” come from?
accentologist (English) comes from English accent, from Middle English accent, from Latin accinō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
accentologist (English): One who studies accentology
Definitions
- One who studies accentology
Ancestry of “accentologist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accent | A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a... |
| 2 | Middle English | accent | accent |
| 3 | Latin | accinō | to sing to |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |