Where does “aloittaa” come from?

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

aloittaa (Finnish): to start, begin, commence; to go ahead

Definitions

  1. to start, begin, commence; to go ahead

Ancestry of “aloittaa”, step by step

aloittaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish alkaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
2Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
3Proto-Uralicalka-beginning

via Finnish oittaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishoittaa—

Words derived from “aloittaa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic alka- →Every word from Proto-Finnic alkadak →Every word from Finnish alkaa →