Finn

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
发音 fĭn

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
专有名词
  1. A male given name from Irish. countable,uncountable
  2. A surname. countable,uncountable
  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. countable,uncountable

词形变化

Finns plural Finns plural

词汇关系

近义词
Finlander
衍生词
Finn raccoon

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
An Old and Middle Irish form of Fionn.
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