Where does “betonivalu” come from?
betonivalu (Finnish) comes from Finnish betoni, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
betonivalu (Finnish): concrete casting
Ancestry of “betonivalu”, step by step
betonivalu 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 valu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | valu | cast; Indicative present connegative form of... |
| 2 | Finnish | valaa | to cast, pour, throw; to cast, mold; Partitive... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | valadak | to pour; to cast |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Permic | wala- | — |