Where does “kantero” come from?

kantero (Ido) comes from Ido kantar, from Spanish cantar, 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.

kantero (Ido): singer, one who sings

Definitions

  1. singer, one who sings

Ancestry of “kantero”, step by step

kantero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ido kantar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Idokantarto sing
2Spanishcantarto sing; A type of shanty or popular song
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 Ido ero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Idoeroera
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti