Where does “accordion” come from?
Accordion comes from German Akkordeon, derived from German Akkord, which comes from French accord meaning agreement or harmony, from French accorder meaning to reconcile or tune, ultimately from Latin ad- prefix combined with Latin ad meaning toward.
accordion (English): A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose...
Definitions
- A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose...
Ancestry of “accordion”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Akkordeon | accordion |
| 2 | German | Akkord | chord; piecework |
| 3 | French | accord | chord; agreement; permission, consent |
| 4 | French | accorder | to grant; to link to, to be related to; to make... |
| 5 | Middle French | accorder | to agree |
| 6 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 7 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |