köken: Either from the oblique case stem of Latin albumen (albumin-) or, less likely, from albumen (albumin- in compounds) + -ine, which underwent haplology.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *albʰós Proto-Italic *alβos Latin albus Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin albūmen Proto-Indo-European *-iHneh Proto-Balto-Slavic *-īˀnāˀder. Proto-Slavic *-ina Old Polish -ina Polish -ina Polish albumina From Latin albūmen + Polish -ina. First attested in 1807.