Where does “nilsoliton” come from?

nilsoliton (English) comes from English soliton, from English -ön, from English -one, from English ketone, from German Keton, from German Aketon, from French acétone, from Latin acētum — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

nilsoliton (English): A certain type of left-invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group

Definitions

  1. A certain type of left-invariant metric on a nilpotent Lie group

Ancestry of “nilsoliton”, step by step

nilsoliton traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English soliton

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsolitonA self-reinforcing pulse or travelling wave...
2English-önForming nouns denoting subatomic particles and quanta
3English-onea ketone; any similar compound containing a...
4EnglishketoneA homologous series of organic molecules whose...
5GermanKetonketone
6GermanAketonacetone
7Frenchacétoneacetone
8Latinacētumvinegar
9French-ateate
10Latin-ātused
11Proto-Italic-ātos
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via English nil

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnilNothing; zero; No, not any
2Latinnīl
3Sanskritनीलof a dark color
4Proto-Indo-EuropeanneyH-to lead
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos