Where does “beton” come from?

beton (Danish) comes from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

beton (Danish): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “beton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥

Words derived from “beton

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥Every word from Latin -menEvery word from Latin bitūmen
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