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Where does “cantonal” come from?

Cantonal comes from English canton, from Old Occitan canton, meaning a corner or district, later applied to subdivisions of Switzerland and other territories.

cantonal (English): Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons

Ancestry of “cantonal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishCantonGuangzhou; Guangdong
2PortugueseCantão—
3Portuguesecantosinging; chant; a bird’s song
4Old Portuguesecanto—
5Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
6Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
7LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
8Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
9Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
10Proto-Italic-ējō—
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
12Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “cantonal”

  • cantonalism
  • cantonalist
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