Where does “曖昧アクセント” come from?
曖昧アクセント (Japanese) comes from Japanese アクセント, from English accent, from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
曖昧アクセント (Japanese): in certain Japanese dialects, pitch accent that is highly inconsistent and unpredictable
Definitions
- in certain Japanese dialects, pitch accent that is highly inconsistent and unpredictable
Ancestry of “曖昧アクセント”, step by step
曖昧アクセント traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese アクセント
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | アクセント | accent stronger articulation |
| 2 | English | accent | A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a... |
| 3 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 4 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 5 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 6 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 7 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 8 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 9 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 10 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 11 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 12 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |