Where does “alokas” come from?

alokas (Finnish) comes from Finnish kas, from Finnish katso!, from Finnish katsoa, from Proto-Finnic kaccodak, from Proto-Germanic gātijaną.

alokas (Finnish): recruit, rookie

Definitions

  1. recruit, rookie

Ancestry of “alokas”, step by step

alokas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
2Finnishkatso!look!
3Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
4Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
5Proto-Germanicgātijaną—

via Finnish aloittaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaloittaato start, begin, commence; to go ahead
2Finnishalkaato begin, start, initiate, set in, be initiated, originate, be originated, take its origin
3Proto-Finnicalkadakto begin, to start
4Proto-Uralicalka-beginning

Words derived from “alokas”

Every word from Proto-Germanic gātijaną →Every word from Proto-Finnic kaccodak →Every word from Finnish katsoa →