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Finnic

Finnic adjective: of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic.

Adjective

Finnic (not comparable)

  1. Of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic.
    Synonyms:
    Baltic-Finnic, Baltic-Fennic, Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic, Fennic
  2. (dated) Of the hypothetical Finno-Volgaic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Baltic-Finnic, Sami, Mordvinic and Mari languages.
  3. (dated) Of the hypothetical Finno-Permic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Finno-Volgaic and Permic languages.
    Synonyms:
    Finno-Permic, Finno-Permian, Fenno-Permic, Fenno-Permian, Fennic
  4. (rare) Finnish.

Synonyms of Finnic

All synonyms of Finnic

Origin of Finnic

From Finn + -ic.

Words formed from Finnic

Words that rhyme with Finnic

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Questions about Finnic

What does Finnic mean?
Finnic means of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic.
What part of speech is Finnic?
Finnic is an adjective.

Words near Finnic in the dictionary

  1. Finneys
  2. Finnglish
  3. Finnhorse
  4. Finnhorses
  5. Finnian
  6. Finnic
  7. Finnicise
  8. Finnicised
  9. Finnicises
  10. Finnicising
  11. Finnicism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Finnic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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