a. [f. FINN + -ISH; cf. ON. Finnskr, Sw., Da. Finske, Ger. Finnisch.] Pertaining to the Finns; rarely in wider sense = FINNIC b. Also absol. quast-sb., the Finnish language.

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1789–96.  Morse, Am. Un. Geog., XI. 84. The Ostiaks, who are likewise a Finnish race, are one of the most numerous nations of Siberia.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Sir John Bowring, 21.

        Try him with these and fifty such,
His skill will ne’er diminish,
Although you should begin in Dutch
And end (like me) in Finnish.

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1856.  Gazetteer of the World, III. 359. The Finnish peasantry.

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