Where does “fink” come from?

fink (Old Frisian) comes from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.

Ancestry of “fink”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicfinkizfinch
2Proto-Indo-European(s)pingoschaffinch

Words derived from “fink”

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