Where does “тенис на маса” come from?

тенис на маса (Bulgarian) comes from Bulgarian ма́са, from Romanian masă, from French masse, from Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

тенис на маса (Bulgarian): table tennis

Definitions

  1. table tennis

Ancestry of “тенис на маса”, step by step

тенис на маса traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Bulgarian ма́са

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Bulgarianма́саtable
2Romanianmasătable; meal; mass
3Frenchmassea paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of...
4Old Frenchmacemace weapon
5Vulgar Latinmattia
6LatinmateolaThe meaning of this term is uncertain....
7Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
8Proto-Italic-olos
9Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
10Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
11Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via English table tennis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishtable tennisA game or sport that involves the hitting of a...
2Portuguesemesatable; meal, food; mesa
3Old Portuguesemesatable
4Vulgar LatinmesaAlternative form of mēnsa
5Latinmēnsaa table
6Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Bulgarian тенис

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Bulgarianтенисtennis
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós
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