Finn

• I finn: white, pale, fair (e.g. fair hair); pure, true, blessed → Finnegan = fairheaded

• G root Finn-: designates moist-swampy places and rotten smell

• G Finne: pimple; blotch

• Tim Finnegan: the Dublin hod-carrier who fell drunk from his ladder and apparently died in the popular Irish-American street ballad from the 1850s Finnegan's Wake. At his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he "came back to life". Much of the text of the ballad is echoed in the first chapter of FW.

• Fionn mac Cumhail: (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn m'Cool") a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man as Fingal.

• Huckleberry Finn: character who features in several books by Mark Twain; a friend of Tom Sawyer

• US Sl fin: a colloquial term for the five-dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

• Finland

• Finn: a giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund

• Finn: a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg

• F fin: end → Mister Finnagain!

• s Michael Finnegan → Mister Finnagain!

• finicky

• Finn’s Hotel: a hotel in Dublin, where Nora Barnacle worked when Joyce first met her