Where does “finch” come from?

Finch comes from Old English finċ, from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos.

finch (English): Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating...

Definitions

  1. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating...

Ancestry of “finch”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishfynchfinch
2Old Englishfinċfinch
3Proto-Germanicfinkizfinch
4Proto-Indo-European(s)pingoschaffinch

Words derived from “finch”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos →Every word from Proto-Germanic finkiz →Every word from Old English finċ →