Where does “pöytäroolipeli” come from?

pöytäroolipeli (Finnish) comes from Finnish roolipeli, from Finnish rooli, from German rolle, from French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus, from Latin rotula — ingot.

pöytäroolipeli (Finnish): tabletop roleplaying game

Definitions

  1. tabletop roleplaying game

Ancestry of “pöytäroolipeli”, step by step

pöytäroolipeli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish roolipeli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishroolipelirole-playing game
2Finnishroolirole
3Germanrolleinflection of rollen: ## first-person singular...
4Frenchrôlerole; character
5Middle Frenchrollerole
6Old Frenchroleroll; scroll
7Medieval Latinrotulusa roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, a...
8Latinrotulaa small wheel; roll
9Arabicرَطْل
10Classical Syriacܪܝܛܠܐ
11Classical Syriacܠܝܛܪܐlibra, pound
12Frenchlitrelitre
13Medieval Latinlitra
14Ancient Greekλίτραlitra, a Sicilian silver coin; libra, a unit of...
15Proto-Italic*līðrāingot

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
Every word from Proto-Italic *līðrāEvery word from Ancient Greek λίτραEvery word from Medieval Latin litra