Where does “bitumen” come from?

bitumen (Polish) comes from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bitumen (Polish): bitumen, blacktop

Definitions

  1. bitumen, blacktop

Ancestry of “bitumen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →
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