Where does “pöydätä” come from?

pöydätä (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.

pöydätä (Finnish): to lay a card on the table face-up

Definitions

  1. to lay a card on the table face-up

Ancestry of “pöydätä”, step by step

pöydätä 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 tä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtäwhat
2FinnishmitäPartitive singular form of mikä; Partitive...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →