Where does “alkusammutin” come from?

alkusammutin (Finnish) comes from Finnish sammutin, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

alkusammutin (Finnish): first-aid fire extinguisher, initial fire extinguisher a fire extinguisher which is quickly available for and easy to use

Definitions

  1. first-aid fire extinguisher, initial fire extinguisher a fire extinguisher which is quickly available for and easy to use

Ancestry of “alkusammutin”, step by step

alkusammutin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sammutin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsammutinfire extinguisher; First-person singular...
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—

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
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