köken: Inherited from Old Spanish acusar, from Latin accūsāre. Whether it was inherited or an early borrowing is disputed by some, but it appeared as early as El Cid in Old Spanish and there is no phonological reason to consider it a borrowing.
köken: Originally Middle Korean 고ᄉᆞ다〮 (Yale: kwòsò-tá), speakers have later inserted the adjective-deriving suffix -하다 (-hada), first attested in the late Early Modern period. Equivalent to 고소 (goso) + -하다 (-hada, “to do”, light verb deriving adjectives).
to blame, reproach, make a complaint against, find fault with · to indict, accuse, arraign, charge
çekim: ortaç accūsātus · şimdiki accūsat · ulaç accūsāns
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō From ad- (“to, towards, at”) + causa (“cause, reason, account, lawsuit”) + -ō.
Equivalent to be- + skylla. Likely borrowed from unattested Middle Low German *beschulden. Cognate of Danish beskylde. Compare Dutch beschuldigen, German beschuldigen.