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Vinony

Finn

proper noun

  1. male given name
  2. family name
  3. ethnic group
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪn/

name

Etymology: An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.

  1. A male given name from Irish.
  2. A surname.
  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.

noun

Etymology: 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.

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