Where does “betume” come from?

betume (Galician) comes from Vulgar Latin *bittūmen, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

betume (Galician): bitumen

Definitions

  1. bitumen

Ancestry of “betume”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latin*bittūmen—
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →
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