The word Mesa in "Mesa Garage Doors" is not just an adaptation of the word for "table" in Spanish. Because, if you think about it, what do garage doors have to do with tables? Nothing. That wouldn't make any sense.
Instead, the name is taken from the concept of "a mesa", which is an English word derived from the spanish. A mesa is what is known as a "high table land", which is probably mostly a plateau. Or, a raised area, like a mountain with the top of it cut off so it's flat on top. The word was originally created in this sense in the year 1759, presumably when Spaniards began to colonize California or something. Brazil? But, it goes even deeper than that, because the Spanish word for table is actually derived from the ancient Latin word "mensa", which also means table. But. The Romans also used the word mensa to mean table in the metaphorical sense, as in a space for intellectuals to gather.
Now you migh be asking, what does an intellectual gathering around a decapitated mountain have to do with garage doors? But I think, if you think about it long enough, the answer will become quite clear to you.
But if you've already been thinking about it for a good hour and nothing has come to mind yet, let me tell you. Because obviously you need some help.
A garage door is kind of like the shape of a table, turned on its side. A garage is where we hold all of our junk, and that is like a metaphor for our brains. An intellectual gathering of the trappings of life, if you will. Also, Mesa garage doors is based in California. Actually, from the Mesa Verde area. So, that kind of also makes sense. In fact, that's probably mostly the reason.
But it's still an interesting exercise to carefully consider the etymology of a word, because if we don't know where words really came from, we don't really know the full extent of what we mean when we say them.





