Where does “vaahtobetoni” come from?
vaahtobetoni (Finnish) comes from Finnish betoni, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
vaahtobetoni (Finnish): foam concrete
Ancestry of “vaahtobetoni”, step by step
vaahtobetoni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish betoni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | betoni | concrete |
| 2 | French | béton | concrete; to drop |
| 3 | Latin | bitūmen | mineral pitch, bitumen |
| 4 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |
via Finnish vaahto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaahto | foam; head; mousse |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vakto | foam |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | þwahtuz | washing, laundry |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -þuz | Forms result nouns from verb roots, usually from... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |