Where does “kloorietyleeni” come from?

kloorietyleeni (Finnish) comes from Finnish kloori, from Swedish klor, from English chlorine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

kloorietyleeni (Finnish): chloroethylene

Definitions

  1. chloroethylene

Ancestry of “kloorietyleeni”, step by step

kloorietyleeni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kloori

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

via Finnish etyleeni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishetyleeniethylene

Words derived from “kloorietyleeni

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂
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