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Finnic, a.|ˈfɪnɪk|
Also 7 Finnonick.
[f. Finn + -ic. The form Finnonick is ad. mod.L. Finnonicus, f. Finno Finn; cf. Lapponic.]
a. Pertaining to the Finns, Finnish.
b. Now usually, Pertaining to the group of peoples ethnically allied to the Finns, or to that division of the Ural-Altaic languages to which Finnish belongs.
1668Wilkins Real Char. i. i. §iii. 4 The Finnic [language] used in Finland and Lapland. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 76 The Finnonick Language. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 368 The Lesghian and other tongues of the Caucasus, by some pretended to be of Finnic origin.
Hence ˈFinnicize v. nonce-wd., to give a Finnish form to.
1827Westm. Rev. VII. 320 The foreign names..have been gradually finnicized, and Biblia is now written Piplia. |