Where does “alkutosite” come from?

alkutosite (Finnish) comes from Finnish tosite, from Finnish tosittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

alkutosite (Finnish): source document

Definitions

  1. source document

Ancestry of “alkutosite”, step by step

alkutosite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tosite

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtositevoucher, supporting document
2Finnishtosittaato support or prove with vouchers and/or...
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-

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-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa
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