Finn

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Name

1. (countable, uncountable) A male given name from Irish.
2. (countable, uncountable) A surname.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Concepts

Finnois

Finlandais

Finnoise

Finlandaise

finlandais

Finn

Synonymes

Finnish

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cysticercus

finn

Traductions

finlandés

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finlandese

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Finne

Fin

finlandês

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Finnin

finlandès

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Finlandiyalı

Φινλανδός

Finse

Fin

finlandesa

filandesa

finès

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈfɪn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de ancien anglais: Finnas

In summary

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.