Where does “alkusammutus” come from?

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

alkusammutus (Finnish): first-aid firefighting

Definitions

  1. first-aid firefighting

Ancestry of “alkusammutus”, step by step

alkusammutus 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 sammutus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsammutusputting out a fire; fire fighting
2Finnishsammuttaato put out, extinguish; to quench, extinguish; to...
3Finnishsammuato go out, die (down) of fire
4Proto-Finnicsambudak—

Words derived from “alkusammutus”

Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →