Where does “aloituskorkeus” come from?

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

aloituskorkeus (Finnish): starting height, start height

Definitions

  1. starting height, start height

Ancestry of “aloituskorkeus”, step by step

aloituskorkeus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish aloitus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishaloitusA start; A faceoff
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

via Finnish korkeus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkorkeusheight; altitude
2Proto-Finnickorkeducheight; altitude
3Proto-Finnickorkedatall, high
Every word from Proto-Uralic alka-