Finn

Meanings

Noun

• A national of Finland.
• A person of ethnic Finnish ancestry, a non-Swedish Finlander.
• A member of another Finnic nationality, such as the Volga Finns or Perm Finns.
• A male given name from Old Norse.

Proper Noun

• A male given name from Irish.
• river Donegal (county) Ireland (country), tributary to the Mourne.

Related

Similar words

• Finlander

Origin

• From Old English Finnas, from Old Norse Finnr ("a {{m")}}, from Proto-Germanic *finnaz (which see for more). Possibly originally meaning a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers, particularly the Sami.
• An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.