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Finucane

Finucane proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Finucane (plural Finucanes)

  1. A surname from Irish.

Forms of Finucane

pluralFinucanes
alternative formFinnucane

Origin of Finucane

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnmhacáin (“descendant of Fionnmhacán”), a personal name composed by the elements fionn (“fair, white”) + macán, a diminutive of mac (“son”).

Questions about Finucane

What does Finucane mean?
Finucane means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Finucane?
Finucane is a proper noun.

Words near Finucane in the dictionary

  1. Fintons
  2. Fintown
  3. Fintry
  4. Fintushel-Stern knot
  5. fintwit
  6. Finucane
  7. Finucanes
  8. Finvenkism
  9. FinX
  10. FIO
  11. FiO2

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