Where does “accentor” come from?

accentor (English) comes from Latin accentor, from Latin cantor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

accentor (English): Any bird of the Eurasian genus "Prunella", such...

Definitions

  1. Any bird of the Eurasian genus "Prunella", such...

Ancestry of “accentor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccentorone who sings with another
2Latincantorsinger; player; first-person singular present...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin cantor →