Where does “高低アクセント” come from?
高低アクセント (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.
高低アクセント (Japanese): accent that relies on the highs and lows of pitch, such as pitch accent in Japanese or tonal accent in Chinese
Definitions
- accent that relies on the highs and lows of pitch, such as pitch accent in Japanese or tonal accent in Chinese
Ancestry of “高低アクセント”, step by step
高低アクセント 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 高低
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | 高低 | high and low |