Where does “accord” come from?
accord (Middle English) comes from Old French acort, from Old French acorder, from Latin concordare, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Ancestry of “accord”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | acort | agreement; accord |
| 2 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 3 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |