Finn
//ˈfɪn// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A national of Finland.
- 2 a native or inhabitant of Finland wordnet
- 3 A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
- 4 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. broadly
- 5 A male given name from Old Norse.
Proper Noun
- 1 A male given name from Irish. countable, uncountable
- 2 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 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. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"One of my favorite sentences in the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is: "I could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.""
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.
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