Where does “masa” come from?
masa (Azerbaijani) comes from Ottoman Turkish ماسه, from Bulgarian ма́са, from Romanian masă, from French masse, from Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
masa (Azerbaijani): table
Ancestry of “masa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | ماسه | — |
| 2 | Bulgarian | ма́са | — |
| 3 | Romanian | masă | table; meal; mass |
| 4 | French | masse | a paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of... |
| 5 | Old French | mace | mace |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | mattia | — |
| 7 | Latin | mateola | The meaning of this term is uncertain.... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |