Where does “ニホニウム” come from?

ニホニウム (Japanese) comes from English nihonium, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

ニホニウム (Japanese): nihonium

Definitions

  1. nihonium

Ancestry of “ニホニウム”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnihoniumThe synthetic transactinide chemical element with...
2English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
3Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
4Proto-Italic*-om—
5Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin -um →