Where does “kortteikko” come from?

kortteikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ikko, from Proto-Finnic -ikko, from Proto-Finnic -i- — Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive).

kortteikko (Finnish): ground covered by horsetails

Definitions

  1. ground covered by horsetails

Ancestry of “kortteikko”, step by step

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