Words that come from Old Norse “Finnr”

160 words across 50 languages descend from Old Norse Finnr — including Finland, Finnish, Finn, Finnic, Fixit, Finlander, Finglish, finnesko.

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English (29)

Norwegian Bokmål (13)

Armenian (9)

Finnish (8)

Swedish (7)

Portuguese (7)

Norwegian Nynorsk (7)

Faroese (5)

Icelandic (5)

Slovak (5)

Polish (5)

German (5)

Russian (3)

Old Norse (3)

Romanian (3)

Danish (2)

Norwegian (2)

Esperanto (2)

Ido (2)

French (2)

Turkish (2)

Irish (2)

Manx (2)

Greek (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Latin (2)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Japanese (1)

Chinese (1)

Hebrew (1)

Hungarian (1)

Italian (1)

Assamese (1)

Old English (1)

New Latin (1)

Cornish (1)

Swahili (1)

Wutunhua (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Samoan (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Maori (1)

Tajik (1)

Persian (1)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (1)

Bengali (1)

Gujarati (1)

Thai (1)

Khmer (1)

Korean (1)