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Finn, Fin|fɪn|
[OE. Finnas pl., corresponding to ON. Finnr, Sw., Da., Ger. Finne.
In the first and second centuries the name is recorded as L. Fennī (Tac.) Gr. ϕίννοι (Ptol.). Presumably of Teut. origin; some have conjectured that it is related by ablaut to fen n.]
The name used by the Teut. nations for an individual of a people in North-Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, calling themselves Suomi or Suomelaisset, and speaking a language of the Ural-Altaic class. Often applied more widely to include other peoples closely allied ethnically and linguistically to the Finns proper or Suomi.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. (Sweet) 17 Þa Finnas..& þa Beormas spræcon neah an ᵹeþeode. 1599tr. K. ælfred's Oros. in Hakluyt Voy. I. He iudged, that the Fynnes and Biarmes speake but one language. 1854Latham in Smith's Dict. Cl. Geog. I. 894 Finn is not the name by which either the Finlanders or the Laplanders know themselves. It is the term by which they are known to the Northmen. |