Where does “akcepti” come from?
akcepti (Esperanto) comes from German akzeptieren, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō — he, she.
akcepti (Esperanto): to accept an offer, a gift, a proposal, etc
Definitions
- to accept an offer, a gift, a proposal, etc
Ancestry of “akcepti”, step by step
akcepti traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via German akzeptieren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | akzeptieren | to accept, to approve, to take, to agree to (e.g. a proposal) |
| 2 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 3 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 5 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 6 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English accept
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accept | To receive, especially with a consent, with... |
| 2 | Middle English | accepten | to accept |
| 3 | Old French | accepter | to accept |
| 4 | Latin | acceptō | to take, receive, accept (regularly) |
| 5 | Latin | accipiō | to receive, accept, take |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Italian accettare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accettare | to accept, to admit; to go along with; to cut... |
| 2 | Italian | accetta | hatchet; third-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | Old French | hachete | hatchet |
| 4 | Old French | hache | axe |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *happia | — |
| 6 | Frankish | happja | axe, hatchet |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *hapjǭ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kop- | to dig; to strike, to beat |