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A Finn is a person from Finland. Write it with a capital F when it means that. The adjective and the language are Finnish, not Finn: you can say “She is a Finn” or “She is Finnish,” but “Finn language” is not how people say it. Though actually, the old northern word behind Finn did not start as a neat label for today’s country. In Old English the Finnas were people of the far north, and the name was used for the Sami; the Old Norse word finnr may first have meant a , perhaps a ‘’ of food. The country name Finland kept that old word. You do not need this history to use Finn correctly now — it just means someone from Finland — but it is why the tidy modern map and the old word do not match perfectly. Separately, Finn is also a given name (from Irish Fionn, “fair”). That name is a different story; do not mix the two origins.
組成It does not split in modern English. For the “person from Finland” sense: from Old English Finnas (used for the Sami), from Old Norse finnr (a hunter-gatherer), perhaps originally a ‘finder’ of food. The Irish personal name Finn (from Fionn) is another word.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Finnnoun詞源 1/ˈfɪn/
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A national of Finland.
- Culturally and economically Finland is a Western nation. But would the Finns fight if the Soviets tried to use Finnish territory as a springboard to attack NATO?
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A person of ethnic Finnish (Suomi) ancestry; a non-Swedish, non-Sami Finlander.
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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.
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A male given name from Old Norse.
Finnname詞源 2/ˈfɪn/
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A male given name from Irish.
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A surname.
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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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。