Where does “sodyum” come from?

sodyum (Turkish) comes from French sodium, from English sodium, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

sodyum (Turkish): sodium

Definitions

  1. sodium

Ancestry of “sodyum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsodiumsodium
2EnglishsodiumThe chemical element with an atomic number of 11...
3English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin -um →