Where does “alkuhankaluus” come from?

alkuhankaluus (Finnish) comes from Finnish hankaluus, from Finnish hankala, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

alkuhankaluus (Finnish): initial difficulty

Definitions

  1. initial difficulty

Ancestry of “alkuhankaluus”, step by step

alkuhankaluus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hankaluus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankaluusdifficulty, complexity; inconvenience
2Finnishhankaladifficult, challenging; cumbersome, troublesome,...
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish alku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalkustart, beginning, inception, incipience; first,...
2Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
3Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
4Proto-Uralicalka-beginning
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →