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accordare
Latin · ancient
"to bring into agreement"
to bring into agreement, from ad- (to) and cor (heart)
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Akkord
German · 1700s
"a musical chord"
borrowed from French accord for a musical chord
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Akkordion
German · 1829
"the bellows-driven chord instrument"
coined by Cyrill Demian for the newly invented bellows instrument built around chords
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accordion
English · 1830s
"a bellows-driven keyboard instrument"
adopted from German for the bellows-driven keyboard instrument
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