Where does “bétonnière” come from?
bétonnière (French) comes from French bétonner, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
bétonnière (French): concrete mixer
Ancestry of “bétonnière”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | bétonner | to concrete |
| 2 | French | béton | concrete; to drop |
| 3 | Latin | bitūmen | — |
| 4 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |