Where does “lounaspöytä” come from?

lounaspöytä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pöytä, from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

lounaspöytä (Finnish): lunch table table on which a lunch is served and eaten

Definitions

  1. lunch table table on which a lunch is served and eaten

Ancestry of “lounaspöytä”, step by step

lounaspöytä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pöytä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpöytätable
2Latinmēnsaa table
3Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Finnish lounas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlounassouthwest; lunch
2Proto-Finniclounas—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →