Where does “kantoninkielinen” come from?
kantoninkielinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish Kanton, from English Canton, from Portuguese Cantão, from Portuguese canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
kantoninkielinen (Finnish): Cantonese, Cantonese-language written or expressed in Cantonese
Definitions
- Cantonese, Cantonese-language written or expressed in Cantonese
Ancestry of “kantoninkielinen”, step by step
kantoninkielinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Kanton
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Kanton | Guangzhou |
| 2 | English | Canton | Guangzhou; Guangdong |
| 3 | Portuguese | Cantão | canton state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 4 | Portuguese | canto | singing; chant; a bird’s song |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 6 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 7 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 8 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 9 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |