Where does “aksenttimerkki” come from?

aksenttimerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish aksentti, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

aksenttimerkki (Finnish): accent mark, accent

Definitions

  1. accent mark, accent

Ancestry of “aksenttimerkki”, step by step

aksenttimerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish aksentti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaksenttiaccent
2Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
3Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
4Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
5LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
6Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
7Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
8Proto-Italic-ējō—
9Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
10Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via Finnish merkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerkkimark, sign; character; symbol
2Old Swedishmærki—
3Old Norsemerkiboundary
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti →Every word from Latin -eo →Every word from Latin caneo →