Where does “bitumiteippi” come from?

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

bitumiteippi (Finnish): bitumen tape

Definitions

  1. bitumen tape

Ancestry of “bitumiteippi”, step by step

bitumiteippi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish bitumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishbitumibitumen
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via Finnish teippi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishteippiadhesive tape, sellotape, tape
2English[[adhesive tape—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →