Where does “betoniliete” come from?

betoniliete (Finnish) comes from Finnish betoni, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

betoniliete (Finnish): concrete sludge, concrete slurry, concrete washout

Definitions

  1. concrete sludge, concrete slurry, concrete washout

Ancestry of “betoniliete”, step by step

betoniliete traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish betoni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishbetoniconcrete
2Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
3Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
4Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
5Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via Finnish liete

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlietesilt; sludge; slurry
2Proto-Finnicleet'ekfine beach sand
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →