Where does “booritrifluoridi” come from?

booritrifluoridi (Finnish) comes from Finnish trifluoridi, from Finnish tri-, from Latin tri-, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

booritrifluoridi (Finnish): boron trifluoride

Definitions

  1. boron trifluoride

Ancestry of “booritrifluoridi”, step by step

booritrifluoridi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish trifluoridi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtrifluoriditrifluoride
2Finnishtri-tri
3Latintri-three, tri-
4Latintrēsthree; 3
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

via Finnish boori

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishbooriboron
2Finnishbooraksiborax
3Swedishborax—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →