Where does “*fink” come from?
*fink (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic finkiz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.
Ancestry of “*fink”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Proto-Germanic | finkiz | finch |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pingos | chaffinch |