Where does “fink” come from?

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

fink (Old High German): finch

Definitions

  1. finch

Ancestry of “fink”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicfinkizfinch
2Proto-Indo-European(s)pingoschaffinch
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos →Every word from Proto-Germanic finkiz →