chant
Old French
/tʃant/
noun
Definitions
- song
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cantus (song, chant, singing, metal rim of a wheel, corner, incantation).
Origin
Latin
cantus
Gloss
song, chant, singing, metal rim of a wheel, corner, incantation
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
隅
Emoji
🎵
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cantellus Latin
- canticum Latin
- cantus Latin
- Kant German
- canto Italian
- chant French
- cantil Spanish, Castilian
- canto Spanish, Castilian
- κανθός Ancient Greek
- *kan- Proto-Indo-European
- *keh₂n- Proto-Indo-European
- kant Norwegian Bokmål
- szanta Polish
- kant Norwegian Nynorsk
- *cant Old French
- cânt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cant Middle Dutch
- chant Norman
- chant Middle French
- canto Old Portuguese
- cjant Friulian
- cant Old Occitan
- tchant Walloon
- cantu Sardinian
- *cantos Gaulish
- cant ONF.