Where does “alkusammutusväline” come from?

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

alkusammutusväline (Finnish): (a piece of) first-aid firefighting equipment

Definitions

  1. (a piece of) first-aid firefighting equipment

Ancestry of “alkusammutusväline”, step by step

alkusammutusväline traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish alkusammutus

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

via Finnish väline

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvälinetool, means, implement
2Finnishväli-mid-, middle-, intermediate, inter-
3Finnishväligap, space; interval; distance
4Proto-Finnicvälji
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka-