Where does “betonimuuri” come from?
betonimuuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish betoni, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
betonimuuri (Finnish): concrete wall, concrete barrier
Definitions
- concrete wall, concrete barrier
Ancestry of “betonimuuri”, step by step
betonimuuri 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 muuri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muuri | wall; barrier, wall |
| 2 | Old Swedish | mur | — |
| 3 | Latin | mūrus | wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs) |
| 4 | Old Latin | moerus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |