Where does “акцент” come from?
акцент (Ukrainian) comes from French accent, from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
акцент (Ukrainian): accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc
Definitions
- accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc
Ancestry of “акцент”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | accent | accent, manner or tone of speech; an accent... |
| 2 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 3 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 4 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 5 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 6 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 7 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 8 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 9 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 10 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |