Where does “aloitusvalikko” come from?

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

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Ancestry of “aloitusvalikko”, step by step

aloitusvalikko 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 välikkö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvälikköpassage
2Finnish-ikkoForms nouns for groups of a particular number,...
3Proto-Finnic-ikkoForms nouns indicating a group of things
4Proto-Finnic-i-Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive)
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