Where does “bètōn” come from?

bètōn (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bètōn (Serbo-Croatian): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “bètōn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥

Words derived from “bètōn

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥Every word from Latin -menEvery word from Latin bitūmen