Where does “広東” come from?
広東 (Japanese) comes from English Canton, from Portuguese Cantão, from Portuguese canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
Ancestry of “広東”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Canton | Guangzhou; Guangdong |
| 2 | Portuguese | Cantão | canton state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 3 | Portuguese | canto | singing; chant; a bird’s song |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 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 |