Karttunen Analytical dictionary states:
1) icnöpilli / îkno: - pil - tlî / (î epenthetic "i")
fatherless child
2) icnöpilti /îkno: - pil - ti /
'to prosper in life, to be favored'
By what mysterious chance such a paradoxical
change of meaning had happened? Can someone
to see the connexion?