Where does “alkukohtaus” come from?

alkukohtaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kohtaus, from Finnish kohdata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

alkukohtaus (Finnish): opening shot

Definitions

  1. opening shot

Ancestry of “alkukohtaus”, step by step

alkukohtaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kohtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohtausfit; attack; seizure; fit, spell; fit, frenzy
2Finnishkohdatato meet with, encounter; to undergo, experience,...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

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-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish kohdata →