Where does “copy song” come from?
copy song (English) comes from Burmese ကော်ပီသီချင်း, from Burmese ကော်ပီ, from English copy, from Middle English copy, from Old French copie, from Medieval Latin copia, from Latin cōpia, from Latin coopia — resin.
copy song (English): A song written to the tune of another existing song
Definitions
- A song written to the tune of another existing song
Ancestry of “copy song”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ကော်ပီသီချင်း | copy song, a song written to the tune of another existing song |
| 2 | Burmese | ကော်ပီ | copy |
| 3 | English | copy | The result of copying; an identical duplicate of... |
| 4 | Middle English | copy | — |
| 5 | Old French | copie | abundance, plenty; transcript, copy |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | copia | reproduction, transcript; copy; supply |
| 7 | Latin | cōpia | supply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches |
| 8 | Latin | coopia | — |
| 9 | Latin | co- | allomorph of con- |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 18 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 19 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 20 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |