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Where does “-umen” come from?
-umen (Latin) comes from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
Ancestry of “-umen”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
-men
forms neuter nouns of the third declension
2
Proto-Italic
*-mn̥
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Words derived from “-umen”
-ume
-ume
-um
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