Where does “pietrame” come from?

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

pietrame (Italian): stones

Definitions

  1. stones

Ancestry of “pietrame”, 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 →