Finn

See also: finn and fínn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fĭn, IPA^(key): /fɪn/

  Homophone: fin

Etymology 1

From Old Norse finnr (“a Finn, a Sami, a Saomo”), a ‘finder’ of food, referring to nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Noun

Finn (plural Finns)

1. A national of Finland.
2. A person of ethnic Finnish ancestry, a non-Swedish Finlander.

Translations

person from Finland

• Armenian: ֆինն (hy) (finn), ֆինլանդացի (hy) (finlandacʻi)
• Basque: finlandiar
• Bulgarian: финландец m (finlandec)
• Catalan: finlandès (ca) m, finlandesa (ca) f

  Valencian: finlandés (ca) m, finlandesa (ca) f

• Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏂ (Awini)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芬蘭人／芬兰人 (zh) (Fēnlánrén), 芬兰人 (zh) (Fēnlán rén)

• Czech: Fin (cs) m, Finka (cs) f
• Danish: finne (da) c
• Dutch: Fin (nl) m, Finse (nl) f
• Esperanto: finno (eo)
• Estonian: soomlane (et), somm (slang), poro (et) (slang), põder (et)
• Finnish: suomalainen (fi)
• French: Finlandais (fr) m, Finlandaise (fr) f, (ethnicity) Finnois (fr) m, Finnoise (fr) f
• Georgian: ფინელი (pineli)
• German: Finne (de) m, Finnin (de) f
• Greek: Φινλανδός (el) m (Finlandós), Φινλανδέζα f (Finlandéza)
• Hawaiian: Pinilana
• Hungarian: finn (hu)
• Icelandic: Finni m
• Indonesian: orang Finlandia
• Interlingua: finnese
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• Italian: finlandese (it) m or f
• Japanese: フィンランド人 (ja) (finrando-jin), フィン人 (fin-jin)
• Khmer: ហ្វាំង (feaŋ)
• Latvian: soms m, somiete f
• Lithuanian: suomis (lt) m, suomė (lt) f
• Northern Sami: suopmelaš (nationality), láddelaš, láttán (ethnicity)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finlender m, finlending m, finne (no) m

  Nynorsk: finlendar (nn) m, finlending (nn) m, finne (nn) m

• Old English: Finn m
• Polish: Fin (pl) m, Finka (pl) f
• Portuguese: finlandês (pt) m, finlandesa f
• Romanian: finlandez (ro) m, finlandeză (ro) f, finlandezi m pl, finalndeze f pl
• Russian: финн (ru) m (finn), фи́нка (ru) f (fínka); финля́ндец (ru) m (finljándec), финля́ндка (ru) f (finljándka) (Finnish national of any ethnicity)
• Scottish Gaelic: Suòmach m, Fionnlainneach m
• Serbo-Croatian: Finac (sh) m, Finkinja f
• Slovene: Fínec (sl) m, Fínka f
• Spanish: finlandés (es) m, finlandesa (es) f
• Swahili: Mfini (sw), Mfinlendi
• Swedish: finne (sv) m or f, finska (sv) f (Finnish-speaking Finn), finländare (sv) m or f, finländska (sv) f (any Finn), finlandssvensk (sv) m or f, finlandssvenska (sv) f (Swedish-speaking Finn)
• Turkish: Fin (tr), Finlandiyalı (tr)
• Venetian: finlandexe (vec) m or f
• Volapük: (♂♀) Suomiyänan (vo), (♂) hi-Suomiyänan, (♀) ji-Suomiyänan

Etymology 2

An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.

Proper noun

Finn

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

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse Finnr.

Proper noun

Finn

1. a male given name.

References

• [1] 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.

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɪn]

• Audio (Austria):

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Proper noun

Finn

1. a male given name borrowed from Danish or Norwegian Finn.

Usage notes

• Currently popular in Germany.

Derived terms

• Finja, Finnja

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From German Finne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fin/
  • Rhymes: -in

Noun

Finn m (plural Finnen)

1. Finn (person from Finland)

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse Finnr, used since Middle Ages, also as an element in Old Norse compound names.

Proper noun

Finn

1. a male given name.

Related terms

• Arnfinn
• Dagfinn
• Torfinn

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Old English

Alternative forms

• Fin

Etymology

Compare Old Norse finnr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /finn/, [fin]

Proper noun

Finn m

1. Finn (someone from Finland)

Declension

Declension of Finn (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Finn	Finnas
accusative	Finn	Finnas
genitive	Finnes	Finna
dative	Finne	Finnum

Derived terms

• Finna land