Sunday, October 2, 2005
The Name Finn: 1
This is cool, although we had the Old Norse origin (Finnr - "Laplander," "from Finland") more in mind than the Irish (Fionn - "white," "fair," "blond-haired, blue-eyed"), although there is definitely some overlap between their meanings. (Coincidence? I think not. But I've always been enamored with Semitic and Indo-European roots, unified theories of language - theories of a master language, an ur-language, etc.) But I never thought of Finn as a distinctively Irish name until everyone started asking if we were of Irish descent, etc. Guess that goes to show how much I know.
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