Where does “aloitteleminen” come from?

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

Ancestry of “aloitteleminen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishaloitellaTo start, begin
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
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