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==Etymology== In [[Old Irish]], finn/find means "white, bright, lustrous; fair, light-hued (of complexion, hair, etc.); fair, handsome, bright, blessed; in moral sense, fair, just, true".<ref>Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, finn-1; [http://dil.ie/22134 dil.ie/22134]</ref> It is cognate with [[Primitive Irish]] ''VENDO-'' (found in names from [[Ogam]] inscriptions), [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''gwyn'' (cf. [[Gwyn ap Nudd|'''Gwyn''' ap Nudd]]),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Mark |title=Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth |pages=194-247 [198] |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2017 |doi=10.1515/9781400883325-009 |quote= Linguistically cognate with Irish Finn is Welsh ''Gwynn'', a figure who appears in Welsh tradition as a supernatural hunter ...}}</ref> [[Cornish language|Cornish]] ''gwen'', [[Breton language|Breton]] ''gwenn'', [[Continental Celtic]] and [[Common Brittonic]] ''*{{Not a typo|uindo}}-'' (a common element in personal and place names), and comes from the [[Proto-Celtic language|Proto-Celtic]] adjective masculine singular ''*windos''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Patrick |last=Sims-Williams |chapter=Some Celtic Otherworld Terms |title=Celtic Language, Celtic Culture: a Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp |date=1990 |publisher=Ford & Bailie Publishers |page=58}}</ref><ref>Matasovic, Ranko, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Brill, 2009. p. 423.</ref><ref>Delamarre, Xavier. ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise''. Editions Errance, 2003 (2nd ed.). p. 321.</ref>
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