Where does “sivuotsikko” come from?

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

sivuotsikko (Finnish): subheading, page heading

Definitions

  1. subheading, page heading

Ancestry of “sivuotsikko”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishotsikkoheading, header, title, headline; signature
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)
Every word from Proto-Finnic -i-Every word from Finnish -ikkoEvery word from Proto-Finnic -ikko