Where does “אַקצענט” come from?
אַקצענט (Yiddish) comes from German Akzent, from Italian accento, from Russian акцент, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
אַקצענט (Yiddish): accent
Definitions
- accent
Ancestry of “אַקצענט”, step by step
אַקצענט traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Akzent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Akzent | accent |
| 2 | Italian | accento | stress; accent; tone |
| 3 | Russian | акцент | stress, accent; accent; accent, emphasis, stress |
| 4 | Spanish | acento | accent |
| 5 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 6 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 7 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 8 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 9 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
via Polish akcent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | akcent | stress; emphasis; accent |