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Where does “accentual” come from?

Accentual derives from English accent plus -ual, tracing through Middle English and Middle French accent to Old French acent, from Latin accentus, a noun formed from the prefix ad- and cantus meaning song.

accentual (English): Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or...

Ancestry of “accentual”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaccentA higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a...
2Frenchaccentaccent, manner or tone of speech; an accent...
3GermanAkzentaccent
4Italianaccentostress; accent; tone
5Russianакцентstress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress
6Spanishacentoaccent
7Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
8Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
9Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
10LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
11Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
12Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
13Proto-Italic-ējō—
14Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
15Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “accentual”

  • accentually
  • accentuality
  • nonaccentual
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