tittelivät
Tittelivät is a Finnish verb form that is most commonly encountered as the past tense, third person plural, of a verb rooted in the noun titteli, meaning “title.” In standard Finnish, the precise verb form tittelittää or titellä is not widely used in everyday speech; instead, verbs such as otsikoida (to headline or to title) or nimittää (to appoint or name) are more typical for expressing the act of giving a title. As a result, tittelivät appears infrequently and is regarded as regional, historical, or stylistically marked in modern usage.
Etymologically, tittelivät is built from titteli (title) with a derivational suffix intended to produce a verb
Usage of the form tittelivät is therefore largely dependent on context and register. It is more likely
Related terms include titteli (title), titteliin liittyvät muodot (title-related forms), and tittelitys or tittelöinti, terms used