Where does “accordionist” come from?
accordionist (English) comes from English accordion, from German Akkordeon, from German Akkord, from French accord, from French accorder, from Middle French accorder, from Old French acorder, from Latin concordare — in.
accordionist (English): Someone who plays the accordion
Definitions
- Someone who plays the accordion
Ancestry of “accordionist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | accordion | A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose... |
| 2 | German | Akkordeon | accordion |
| 3 | German | Akkord | chord; piecework |
| 4 | French | accord | chord; agreement; permission, consent |
| 5 | French | accorder | to grant; to link to, to be related to; to make... |
| 6 | Middle French | accorder | to agree |
| 7 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 8 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 9 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 11 | Latin | în | — |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |