Where does “noutopöytä” come from?

noutopöytä (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.

noutopöytä (Finnish): buffet

Definitions

  1. buffet

Ancestry of “noutopöytä”, step by step

noutopöytä 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 nouto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnoutofetch; checkout
2Finnishnoutaato fetch, retrieve; to check out
3Proto-Finnicnoutadakto trace, track
4Proto-Uralicńoxe-to pursue
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →