Finn

• enPR: fĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: fin

A Finn (2)

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.

Finn (plural Finns)

1. A national of Finland.
2. A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
3. A member of another 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.

• (person from Finland): (dated) Finlander
• (ethnic Finn): Suomi, (rare) Finnishman

An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.

Finn (plural Finns)

1. A male given name from Irish.
2. A surname.
3. A river in County Donegal, Ireland, tributary to the Mourne.

From Old Norse Finnr.

Finn

1. a male given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data:25 335 males with the given name Fnn have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• IPA^(key): [fɪn]

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Finn

1. a male given name from Danish, Norwegian, or English Finn

• Currently popular in Germany.

• Finja, Finnja

From German Finne.

• IPA^(key): /fin/
  • Rhymes: -in

Finn m (plural Finnen)

1. Finn (person from Finland)

From Old Norse Finnr, from finnr (“Sami”), whence also finn. Also a short form of compound names with the element. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Finnur, Swedish Finn, and Danish Find.

Finn m (definite Finnen)

1. a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Finna

• finn (“Sami”)

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Finn”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN

• Fin

From Proto-Germanic *finnaz. Compare Old Norse Finnr.

• IPA^(key): /finn/, [fin]

Finn m

1. Sami
2. (in the plural) Lapland

• Finna land
• Finnas