Where does “akcento” come from?
akcento (Esperanto) comes from English accent, from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
akcento (Esperanto): accent, stress
Definitions
- accent, stress
Ancestry of “akcento”, step by step
akcento traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accent | A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a... |
| 2 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 3 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 4 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 5 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 6 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 7 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 8 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 9 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 10 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 11 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via Polish akcent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | akcent | stress; emphasis; accent |