köken: Etymology tree French servir Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French serviette Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish serwetka From French serviette + Polish -ka.
napkin, table napkin, serviette (a piece of cloth made of linen or damask used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating) · tablecloth (a cloth used to cover and protect a table)
cloth to wipe hands or mouth, towel, napkin · tablecloth
çekim: çoğul mantēlia · tamlayan mantēlis
köken: A decomposition into manus (“hand”) and tergō (“to wipe, to rub”) would be semantically likely (compare Late Latin manutergium), but the morphological processes involved are murky, taking into account the variants, their relationship of which is not without doubts, and their obscuration by scribal error. In late and vulgar Latin it was confounded with and driven away by diminutive forms of the…