Where does “bestiame” come from?

bestiame (Italian) comes from Italian -ame, from Latin -amen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bestiame (Italian): cattle and sheep etc. considered as an...

Definitions

  1. cattle and sheep etc. considered as an...

Ancestry of “bestiame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-amefoglia + API → fogliame; bestia + API →...
2Latin-amen—
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 Italian -ame →