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Where does “chantar” come from?

chantar (Occitan) comes from Old Occitan chantar, from Latin cantare, from Latin canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

chantar (Occitan): to sing

Definitions

  1. to sing

Ancestry of “chantar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanchantarto sing
2Latincantarepresent active infinitive of cantō; second-person...
3LatincantoI sing; I enchant, or call forth by charms,...
4Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
5Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
6LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
7Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
8Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
9Proto-Italic-ējō—
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
11Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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