Where does “Betonkonstruktion” come from?

Betonkonstruktion (German) comes from German betōn, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

Betonkonstruktion (German): concrete construction

Definitions

  1. concrete construction

Ancestry of “Betonkonstruktion”, step by step

Betonkonstruktion traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German betōn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanbetōnconcrete
2Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
3Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
4Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
5Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via German Konstruktion

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKonstruktionconstruction
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →