Where does “Akzent” come from?
Akzent (German) comes from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
Akzent (German): accent
Definitions
- accent
Ancestry of “Akzent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 2 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 3 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 4 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 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 |