Where does “zabetonirati” come from?

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

zabetonirati (Serbo-Croatian): to concrete

Definitions

  1. to concrete

Ancestry of “zabetonirati”, step by step

zabetonirati traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Serbo-Croatian betonirati

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatianbetoniratito concrete
2Serbo-Croatianbètōnconcrete
3Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
4Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
5Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
6Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via Serbo-Croatian za

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatianzafor; behind, in back of, at; during
2Proto-Slaviczabehind, after (stationary)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →