Where does “orsikko” come from?

orsikko (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).

orsikko (Finnish): the clothes of a to-be-married woman that are hanging on a wooden beam or beams and will be used as dowry

Definitions

  1. the clothes of a to-be-married woman that are hanging on a wooden beam or beams and will be used as dowry

Ancestry of “orsikko”, 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 →