单词 | finn |
释义 | Finnn. Originally: a member of a people of Scandinavia and north-eastern Europe speaking a Finno-Ugric language; (subsequently) a native or inhabitant of Finland; a person of Finnish descent.Finn and Finland do not correspond to terms used by the Finns themselves (who use Suomi and derivatives). N.E.D. (1896) comments: ‘Often applied more widely to include other peoples closely allied ethnically and linguistically to the Finns proper or Suomi.’ ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Ural-Altaic > [noun] > Finn Finnc893 Finlander1728 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scandinavia > native or inhabitant of Finland Finlander1728 Finn1854 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. (Sweet) 17 Þa Finnas..& þa Beormas spræcon neah an geþeode. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 5 He iudged, that the Fynnes and Biarmes speake but one language. 1854 R. G. Latham in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Geogr. I. 894/2 Finn is not the name by which either the Finlanders or the Laplanders know themselves. It is the term by which they are known to the Northmen. 1916 H. A. Miller School & Immigrant iv. 61 Now the Finn is claiming his own national individuality and his language is rapidly replacing Swedish. 1941 Life 17 Feb. 80/2 There were 22,000 dead Finns, 45,000 wounded, 600,000 refugees from the areas seized by Soviet Russia. 2001 E. M. Ryynanen tr. A. K. E. Holmio Hist. Finns Michigan viii. 154 The companies favored the physically powerful Finns as loaders and drivers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c893 |
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