Where does “pelilauta” come from?

pelilauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish peli, from Middle Low German spel, from Old Saxon spil, from Proto-West Germanic spil — dance; game, exercise.

pelilauta (Finnish): game board, gameboard portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved

Definitions

  1. game board, gameboard portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved

Ancestry of “pelilauta”, step by step

pelilauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish peli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpeligame; match, game; game; tool, means, implement,...
2Middle Low Germanspel—
3Old Saxonspil—
4Proto-West Germanicspildance; game, exercise

via Finnish lauta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishlautaA board; An element in many compound words, where...
2Proto-Finniclautaboard, plank; table
3Proto-Baltic*plauˀtá—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run
Every word from Proto-West Germanic spil →Every word from Old Saxon spil →Every word from Middle Low German spel →