Where does “bitumin” come from?

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

bitumin (Polish): bitumen, blacktop

Definitions

  1. bitumen, blacktop

Ancestry of “bitumin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “bitumin”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →