Where does “cantonalist” come from?
cantonalist (English) comes from English cantonal, from English Canton, from Portuguese Cantão, from Portuguese canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
cantonalist (English): A supporter of cantonalism
Definitions
- A supporter of cantonalism
Ancestry of “cantonalist”, step by step
cantonalist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cantonal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cantonal | Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons |
| 2 | English | Canton | Guangzhou; Guangdong |
| 3 | Portuguese | Cantão | canton state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 4 | Portuguese | canto | singing; chant; a bird’s song |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 6 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 7 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 8 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 9 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via English ist
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ist | A practitioner or supporter of an ism |
| 2 | English | -ist | Added to words to form nouns denoting |
| 3 | Old French | -iste | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ista | -ist; one who practises or believes |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ιστής | Alternative form of -τής; -ist |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tās | — |