Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A national of Finland. · A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander. · 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. · A male given name from Old Norse.
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.
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