Where does “Akzentsetzung” come from?
Akzentsetzung (German) 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.
Akzentsetzung (German): accentuation, emphasis
Definitions
- accentuation, emphasis
Ancestry of “Akzentsetzung”, step by step
Akzentsetzung 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 |
via German Setzung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Setzung | setting, settlement, positing |
| 2 | German | setzen | to set; to put; to sit down; to settle |
| 3 | Middle High German | setzen | to set, place down |
| 4 | Old High German | sezzen | to make sit, set, put |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sattjan | to set, place |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | satjaną | to set, to place down |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sodéyeti | to set, to seat, to cause to sit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sed- | to sit |