Where does “legname” come from?

legname (Italian) comes from Latin lignamen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

legname (Italian): timber, wood

Definitions

  1. timber, wood

Ancestry of “legname”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlignamentimber
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “legname”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin lignamen →