Where does “finned” come from?
I need to flag a significant problem with this chain before writing. The chain provided contains logical inconsistencies that make it impossible to write an accurate etymology: 1. **Broken linguistic path**: English "fin" cannot reasonably derive from Old English "-od" (a suffix), which cannot derive from Latin "finis" (meaning "end/boundary"), which cannot derive from Proto-Indo-European "dʰeygʷ-" 2. **Repeated roots**: Proto-Indo-European "dʰeygʷ-" appears four times identically with no intermediate steps, which is linguistically implausible 3. **Yiddish insertion**: Yiddish "פֿינף" (finf, meaning "five") appears in the chain but has no semantic connection to "fin" (a fish appendage) and doesn't fit the proposed etymology 4. **Unknown meaning**: The meaning
finned (English): Having fins; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- Having fins; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “finned”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fin | One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel... |
| 2 | English | finasteride | A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males |
| 3 | English | -steride | Used to form names of [[w:5α-reductase |
| 4 | English | -ide | Any of a group of related compounds - azide,... |
| 5 | Middle French | -ide | id (dynast) |
| 6 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 7 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |