Where does “kitino” come from?
kitino (Esperanto) comes from French chitine, from Latin chiton, from Ancient Greek χιτών, from Central Semitic kittan, from Swahili kitu, from Proto-Bantu kɪ̀ntʊ̀, from Proto-Bantu *-ntʊ̀.
kitino (Esperanto): chitin
Ancestry of “kitino”, step by step