Where does “cjantautôr” come from?

cjantautôr (Friulian) comes from Friulian cjantant, from Friulian cjantâ, from Latin cantāre, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

cjantautôr (Friulian): singer-songwriter

Definitions

  1. singer-songwriter

Ancestry of “cjantautôr”, step by step

cjantautôr traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Friulian cjantant

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Friuliancjantantsinger
2Friuliancjantâto sing
3Latincantāre
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 Friulian autôr

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Friulianautôr
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eoEvery word from Latin caneo