Where does “alkuperäissoitin” come from?

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

alkuperäissoitin (Finnish): indigenous instrument musical instrument of indigenous people

Definitions

  1. indigenous instrument musical instrument of indigenous people

Ancestry of “alkuperäissoitin”, step by step

alkuperäissoitin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish alkuperäinen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalkuperäinenoriginal
2Finnishalkuperäorigin
3Finnishalkustart, beginning, inception, incipience; first,...
4Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
5Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
6Proto-Uralicalka-beginning

via Finnish soitin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsoitinmusical instrument; player; First-person singular...
2Finnishsoittaato play; to phone, call; to ring, toll
3Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka-