Where does “alkukankeus” come from?

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

alkukankeus (Finnish): initial awkwardness, initial difficulty

Definitions

  1. initial awkwardness, initial difficulty

Ancestry of “alkukankeus”, step by step

alkukankeus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

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

via Finnish kankeus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkankeusstiffness; rigidity
2Finnishkankeastiff; awkward, clumsy; Partitive singular form...
3Proto-Finnickankedastiff
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →Every word from Proto-Finnic alkadak →Every word from Finnish alkaa →