Finn

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

//ˈfɪn//

A national of Finland.

noun

1
A national of Finland.
Culturally and economically Finland is a Western nation. But would the Finns fight if the Soviets tried to use Finnish territory as a springboard to attack NATO?
2
A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
3
A member of any Finnic nationality, such as (more narrowly) a Baltic Finn such as a Karelian or Estonian, or (more broadly) a Volga Finn or Perm Finn.
4
A male given name from Old Norse.

Etymology

From Old English Finnas (“the Sami”) (plural), from Old Norse finnr (“a hunter-gatherer”), from Proto-Germanic *finnaz (which see for more). Possibly originally meaning a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers, particularly the Sami.

proper noun

1
A male given name from Irish.
2
A surname.
3
A river in County Donegal, Ireland, which joins the Mourne to form the Foyle. The same river borders onto County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, between Clady and Strabane.

Etymology

An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.

Forms

plural: Finns

Fink · A surname.Finland · A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and…Finley · A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Finn · A national of Finland.

Finnish · Of or pertaining to Finland or the Finns; Finlandic,…Fiona · A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, in regular use…fir · A conifer of the genus Abies.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.