Where does “sodium” come from?

Sodium derives from the English soda, from Italian soda, from Latin sodanum, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós.

sodium (English): The chemical element with an atomic number of 11...

Definitions

  1. The chemical element with an atomic number of 11...

Ancestry of “sodium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “sodium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin -um →