Where does “mesa” come from?

mesa (Kituba) comes from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mesa, from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mesa (Kituba): table

Definitions

table

Ancestry of “mesa”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Spanish	mesa	table; mesa
2	Vulgar Latin	mesa	Alternative form of mēnsa
3	Latin	mēnsa	a table
4	Latin	mēnsus	having measured, estimated
5	Latin	-tus	Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6	Proto-Italic	-tus	—
7	Proto-Indo-European	-tus	Derives action nouns from verb roots

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →