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Where does “alkuliemi” come from?

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

alkuliemi (Finnish): primeval soup

Definitions

  1. primeval soup

Ancestry of “alkuliemi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalkustart, beginning, inception, incipience; first,...
2Finnishalkaato begin , start; to initiate, set in, be...
3Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
4Proto-Uralicalka-beginning
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