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
- Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons
Ancestry of “cantonal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Canton | Guangzhou; Guangdong |
| 2 | Portuguese | Cantão | canton state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 3 | Portuguese | canto | singing; chant; a bird’s song |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 5 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 6 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 8 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |