Where does “betonngi” come from?

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

betonngi (Greenlandic): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “betonngi”, 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 *-mn̥Every word from Latin -menEvery word from Latin bitūmen