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3.5.2.1 f-n White, light-coloured; blanc, clair

Gael.I.findwhite, shining; finne whiteness
Gael.I.Finda divinity, cf. Lugð3.1.26.
Gael.I.fionnbeautiful; blond (hair), light-coloured
Gael.S.fionnagHooded Crow, 281
Gael.I.finngeinteNorwegian, Finn
Engl.Finnthe Finns (evidently named by Gaelic peoples)
Gael.Ifinnog, feannogHooded Crow, 281
Cymricfanaggrey
Engl.finebeautiful
Franç.: Pic.feine linetteLinnet, 422, cf. phanétoð3.5.1.1.
Franç.: Aisnefin frionLinnet, 422, cf. phanétoð3.5.1.1.
Franç.finpure, refined (fin "thin", Engl. fine "delicate" may be of a different, non-chromatic origin; fin "end" and Ital. fino "until" belong to another category (but not to figere "to fix")
Engl.fineadmirable (as in French, fine "delicate" may be of a different, non-chromatic origin)

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