Where does “pöytäkirjuri” come from?

pöytäkirjuri (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.

pöytäkirjuri (Finnish): minute-taker, minutes secretary person who records the minutes of a meeting

Definitions

  1. minute-taker, minutes secretary person who records the minutes of a meeting

Ancestry of “pöytäkirjuri”, step by step

pöytäkirjuri 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 kirjuri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirjuribookkeeper; scribe; scorekeeper
2Finnishkirjatato book, log, register; to register
3Finnishkirjabook; quire
4Proto-Finnickirjadecoration, carving, pattern
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →