Where does “yureniyamu” come from?

yureniyamu (Chichewa) comes from English uranium, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

yureniyamu (Chichewa): uranium

Definitions

  1. uranium

Ancestry of “yureniyamu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishuraniumThe element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a...
2English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
3Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
4Proto-Italic*-om—
5Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →