Where does “bê-tông” come from?

bê-tông (Vietnamese) comes from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bê-tông (Vietnamese): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “bê-tông”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →
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