Where does “betonilattia” come from?
betonilattia (Finnish) comes from Finnish betoni, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
betonilattia (Finnish): concrete floor
Ancestry of “betonilattia”, step by step
betonilattia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish betoni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | betoni | concrete |
| 2 | French | béton | concrete; to drop |
| 3 | Latin | bitūmen | mineral pitch, bitumen |
| 4 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |
via Finnish lattia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lattia | floor |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | flatją | a level surface; level ground; the floor of a... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | flataz | flat |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | plÁt- | — |