Where does “asento” come from?
asento (Finnish) comes from Spanish acento, 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.
asento (Finnish): position, posture, pose, stance; attention;...
Definitions
- position, posture, pose, stance; attention;...
Ancestry of “asento”, step by step
asento traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish acento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 2 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 3 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 4 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 5 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 6 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via Galician asentar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | asentar | to sit down |
| 2 | Galician | sentar | to seat; to seat; to set down; to sit down |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | sentar | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | sedento | third-person plural future active imperative of... |
| 5 | Latin | sedēns | seating, being seated |
| 6 | Latin | sedeō | to sit, to be seated |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | sedēō | sit, be sitting, be seated |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sḗd- | to sit |