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

  1. 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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseアクセントaccent stronger articulation
2EnglishaccentA higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a...
3Frenchaccentaccent, manner or tone of speech; an accent...
4GermanAkzentaccent
5Italianaccentostress; accent; tone
6Russianакцентstress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress
7Spanishacentoaccent
8Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
9Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
10Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
11LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
12Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
13Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
14Proto-Italic-ējō
15Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
16Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via Japanese 高低

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese高低high and low
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti
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