Where does “alkupamaus” come from?

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

alkupamaus (Finnish): any event that marks the beginning of something

Definitions

  1. any event that marks the beginning of something

Ancestry of “alkupamaus”, step by step

alkupamaus 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 pamaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpamausboom, bang; report
2Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →Every word from Proto-Finnic alkadak →Every word from Finnish alkaa →