Where does “fink” come from?

fink (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Middle Low German vinke, from Old Saxon *fink, from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.

fink (Norwegian Bokmål): a bird of the family Fringillidae, the finches

Definitions

  1. a bird of the family Fringillidae, the finches

Ancestry of “fink”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanvinke—
2Old Saxon*fink—
3Proto-Germanicfinkizfinch
4Proto-Indo-European(s)pingoschaffinch

Words derived from “fink”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos →Every word from Proto-Germanic finkiz →Every word from Old Saxon *fink →