Where does “kretenizam” come from?

kretenizam (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian -izam, from Ancient Greek -ισμός, from Ancient Greek -μός, from Proto-Indo-European -mós — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.

kretenizam (Serbo-Croatian): cretinism; idiocy, dumbness

Definitions

  1. cretinism; idiocy, dumbness

Ancestry of “kretenizam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatian-izam-ism
2Ancient Greek-ισμόςForms abstract nouns
3Ancient Greek-μόςForms abstract nouns
4Proto-Indo-European-mósCreates action/result nouns from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mós →Every word from Ancient Greek -μός →Every word from Ancient Greek -ισμός →