Where does “rakonto” come from?
rakonto (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto rakonti, from English recount, from English count, from Middle English counten, from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter, from Latin computō, from Latin com- — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
rakonto (Esperanto): narration, narrative, story, tale
Definitions
- narration, narrative, story, tale
Ancestry of “rakonto”, step by step
rakonto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto rakonti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | rakonti | to tell a story, to narrate, to relate, to recount |
| 2 | English | recount | Narration, account, description, rendering; To... |
| 3 | English | count | To recite numbers in sequence; To determine the... |
| 4 | Middle English | counten | To count enumerate; give the number of |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | conter | to tell; to say; to recount; to add up |
| 6 | Old French | conter | to tell; to say; to recount; to add up |
| 7 | Latin | computō | to calculate, compute, reckon together |
| 8 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 9 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Italian racconto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | racconto | story, tale, short story, account; first-person... |
| 2 | Italian | raccontare | to tell, to narrate, to recount, to relate |
| 3 | Italian | ra- | Used in the formation of verbs with an intensive... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |