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Where does “Finn” come from?

Finn (Danish) comes from Old Norse Finnr, from Proto-Germanic Finnaz.

Ancestry of “Finn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old NorseFinnra Sami; Sami, Finns; a {{m|en|Finn}}, a...
2Proto-GermanicFinnaz—
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