Where does “alkuteksti” come from?

alkuteksti (Finnish) comes from Finnish teksti, from Esperanto teksto, from Latin textus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

alkuteksti (Finnish): original text, source text

Definitions

  1. original text, source text

Ancestry of “alkuteksti”, step by step

alkuteksti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish teksti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtekstitext; copy
2Esperantotekstotext; lyrics
3Latintextuswoven, having been woven; texture, structure;...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →