Where does “torium” come from?

torium (Malay) comes from English thorium, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

torium (Malay): thorium

Definitions

  1. thorium

Ancestry of “torium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishthoriumA chemical element with atomic number 90: a...
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 →