Where does “accent” come from?
accent (French) comes from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accent (French): accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent...
Definitions
- accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent...
Ancestry of “accent”, step by step
accent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Akzent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 2 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 3 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 4 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 5 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 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 |