Where does “alkumuna” come from?

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

alkumuna (Finnish): mythology world egg, cosmic egg mythological motif of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched"

Definitions

  1. mythology world egg, cosmic egg mythological motif of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched"

Ancestry of “alkumuna”, step by step

alkumuna 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 müŋä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmüŋäegg
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →Every word from Proto-Finnic alkadak →Every word from Finnish alkaa →