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Where does “skandirati” come from?

skandirati (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German skandieren, from French scander, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.

skandirati (Serbo-Croatian): to chant

Definitions

  1. to chant

Ancestry of “skandirati”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanskandierento chant; to scan
2Frenchscanderto scan; to chant; to enunciate carefully; to...
3Latinscanderethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
4Latinscandō—
5Proto-Indo-Europeansḱend-—
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