Where does “acantilado” come from?
acantilado (Spanish) comes from Spanish acantilar, from Galician cantil, from Galician canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
acantilado (Spanish): steep, sheer; cliff
Ancestry of “acantilado”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | acantilar | to run a ship into trouble or onto rocks; to... |
| 2 | Galician | cantil | cliff; shelf; a rebate plane |
| 3 | Galician | canto | singing; hymn, song; first-person singular... |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 5 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 6 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 8 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |