Where does “hiilitetrakloridi” come from?

hiilitetrakloridi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tetrakloridi, from Finnish kloridi, from English chloride, from English chlorine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.

hiilitetrakloridi (Finnish): carbon tetrachloride

Definitions

  1. carbon tetrachloride

Ancestry of “hiilitetrakloridi”, step by step

hiilitetrakloridi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tetrakloridi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtetrakloriditetrachloride
2Finnishkloridichloride
3Englishchlorideany salt of hydrochloric acid, such as sodium...
4EnglishchlorineA toxic, green, gaseous chemical element with an...
5English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
6French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
7Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
8Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
9Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
10Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
11Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Finnish hiili

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiilicoal; charcoal; carbon
2Proto-Finnichiilicharcoal; ember
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂