Where does “無アクセント” come from?
無アクセント (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.
無アクセント (Japanese): the lack of any phonemic pitch accent in certain dialects of Japanese
Definitions
- the lack of any phonemic pitch accent in certain dialects of Japanese
Ancestry of “無アクセント”, step by step
無アクセント 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 |
via Japanese 無
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 無 | nothing, nothingness; mu; the null set: neither... |