Where does “trikloorietyleeni” come from?

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

trikloorietyleeni (Finnish): trichloroethylene

Definitions

  1. trichloroethylene

Ancestry of “trikloorietyleeni”, step by step

trikloorietyleeni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kloorietyleeni

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkloorietyleenichloroethylene
2Finnishkloorichlorine
3Swedishklorchlorine
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 tri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtriAbbreviation of tohtori
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂
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