Noun: finch
| Singular | finch |
| Plural | finches |
Sample Sentences
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"Well, she could have put it across me for that matter if Dodger, who'd seen her up there, didn't happen to call round to do with the business," admitted George simply. "All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another. But I suppose there's something you go by." [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
Nouns inflected like finch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
3. Proto-Germanic *finkiz
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
5. Proto-Germanic *finkô
6. Old English finċ
7. Middle English fynch
8. English finch
9. From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-West Germanic *finki, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”). See: Middle English Nouns '
fynch', Dutch Nouns '
vink', German Nouns '
Fink', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπίγγος'.
Verbs referencing "finch"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
fink, French Nouns
pinson, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
finke.