Where does “heimopäällikkö” come from?
heimopäällikkö (Finnish) comes from Finnish heimo, from Proto-Finnic haimo, from Old High German -o, from Proto-West Germanic -ō, from Proto-Germanic -ô, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
heimopäällikkö (Finnish): tribal chief
Definitions
- tribal chief
Ancestry of “heimopäällikkö”, step by step
heimopäällikkö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish heimo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | heimo | tribe; family |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | haimo | tribe; family; kindred, relatives |
| 3 | Old High German | -o | Forms adverbs from adjectives; used to form... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -ō | Creates adverbs from adjectives; Creates agent... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ô | -ly; Forms agent nouns, often from the zero-grade... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
via Finnish päällikkö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | päällikkö | chief; head; leader |
| 2 | Finnish | -ikko | Forms nouns for groups of a particular number,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ikko | Forms nouns indicating a group of things |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -i- | Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive) |