Where does “aloitepalkinto” come from?

aloitepalkinto (Finnish) comes from Finnish palkinto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

aloitepalkinto (Finnish): suggestion award

Definitions

  1. suggestion award

Ancestry of “aloitepalkinto”, step by step

aloitepalkinto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish palkinto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalkintoprize, award
2Finnish-ntö
3Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish aloite

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaloiteinitiative; Short for edustaja-aloite
2Finnishaloittaato start, begin, commence; to go ahead
3Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
4Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
5Proto-Uralicalka-beginning
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j
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