a. Also 7 Finnonick. [f. FINN + -IC. The form Finnonick is ad. mod.L. Finnonicus, f. Finno FINN; cf. Lapponic.] a. Pertaining to the Finns, Finnish. b. Now usually, Pertaining to the group of peoples ethnically allied to the Finns, or to that division of the Ural-Altaic languages to which Finnish belongs.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., I. i. § iii. 4. The Finnic [language], used in Finland and Lapland.
1674. trans. Scheffer’s Lapland, 76. One that is well skilled in the dialect and propriety of the Finnonick Language.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 368. The Lesghian, and other tongues of the Caucasus, by some pretended to be of Finnic origin.
Hence Finnicize v. nonce-wd., to give a Finnish form to.
1827. Westm. Rev., VII. April, 320. The foreign names to which they belong have been gradually finnicized, and Biblia is now written Piplia, [etc.].
