Where does “chipmusic” come from?
chipmusic (English) comes from English music, from Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Italian mosaico, from Latin musaicum, from Latin musivum, from Latin mūsēum, from Ancient Greek μουσεῖον — Alternative letter-case form of Μοῦσᾰ; music,...
chipmusic (English): The musical genre made up of chiptunes
Definitions
- The musical genre made up of chiptunes
Ancestry of “chipmusic”, step by step
chipmusic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English music
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | music | A series of sounds organized in time, employing... |
| 2 | Middle English | musik | Alternative form of musike |
| 3 | Old French | musique | music |
| 4 | Italian | mosaico | mosaic, puzzle, jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle; mixture;... |
| 5 | Latin | musaicum | — |
| 6 | Latin | musivum | mosaic |
| 7 | Latin | mūsēum | a place or temple devoted to the Muses |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | μουσεῖον | a home of music poetry; a museum, a... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | μοῦσα | Alternative letter-case form of Μοῦσᾰ; music,... |
via English Chip
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chip | A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles |
| 2 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 3 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 4 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |