Where does “alku” come from?

alku (Finnish) comes from Finnish alkaa, from Proto-Finnic alkadak, from Proto-Uralic alka- — beginning.

alku (Finnish): start, beginning, inception, incipience; first,...

Definitions

  1. start, beginning, inception, incipience; first,...

Ancestry of “alku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
2Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
3Proto-Uralicalka-beginning

Words derived from “alku”

Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →