"fin" meaning in Cornish

See fin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Borrowed from English fine. Etymology templates: {{etymid|kw|fine}}, {{bor+|kw|en|fine}} Borrowed from English fine Head templates: {{head|kw|adjective||//||an//|head=}} fin, {{kw-adj}} fin
  1. fine, elegant Synonyms: teg Derived forms: finder (english: sensibility), findhyskys (english: cultured), finskrif [calligraphy, arts, writing, journalism, literature, communications, publishing, media]
    Sense id: en-fin-kw-adj-7Y0cyOyl Categories (other): Cornish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Cornish entries with incorrect language header: 95 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: finyow [plural]
Etymology: From Middle Cornish fin, fen, from Proto-Brythonic *fin, from Latin fīnis. Cognate with Breton fin and Welsh ffin. Etymology templates: {{etymid|kw|end}}, {{inh|kw|cnx|fin,fen}} Middle Cornish fin, fen, {{inh|kw|cel-bry-pro|*fin}} Proto-Brythonic *fin, {{der|kw|la|fīnis}} Latin fīnis, {{cog|br|fin}} Breton fin, {{cog|cy|ffin}} Welsh ffin Head templates: {{head|kw|noun||||{{{d2}}}|plural|finyow||||||cat2=|g=f|head=}} fin f (plural finyow), {{kw-noun|f|y}} fin f (plural finyow)
  1. end, limit Tags: feminine Synonyms: diwedh, diwedhva, finweth, penn Derived forms: finek, finel (english: final), finsya (english: end, finish) [verb], finweth (english: extremity, limit)
    Sense id: en-fin-kw-noun-kLrCriIL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Cornish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.