Where does “beton” come from?

beton (Greenlandic) comes from Danish beton, from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

beton (Greenlandic): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “beton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danishbetonconcrete
2Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
3Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
4Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
5Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →
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