Where does “acantilar” come from?
acantilar (Spanish) comes from Galician cantil, from Galician canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
acantilar (Spanish): to run a ship into trouble or onto rocks; to...
Definitions
- to run a ship into trouble or onto rocks; to...
Ancestry of “acantilar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Galician | cantil | cliff; shelf; a rebate plane |
| 2 | Galician | canto | singing; hymn, song; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 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 |
Words derived from “acantilar”