Where does “inchantable” come from?
inchantable (French) comes from French chantable, from English chant, from French chant, from Old French chant, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
inchantable (French): unsingable
Definitions
- unsingable
Ancestry of “inchantable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chantable | singable, cantabile |
| 2 | English | chant | To sing, especially without instruments, and as... |
| 3 | French | chant | song; The discipline of singing |
| 4 | Old French | chant | song |
| 5 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 6 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 8 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |