Where does “accent” come from?
accent (Middle English) comes from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
accent (Middle English): accent
Definitions
- accent
Ancestry of “accent”, step by step
accent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French accent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | accent | — |
| 2 | Old French | acent | — |
| 3 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 4 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 5 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 6 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 7 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |