Where does “bitumi” come from?

bitumi (Finnish) comes from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bitumi (Finnish): bitumen

Definitions

  1. bitumen

Ancestry of “bitumi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “bitumi”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →