Φίννος

Etymology
Probably from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The name as used by Tacitus is unclear about whom it actually describes. More at Fenni.

Noun

 * 1) one of the Fenni or Phinnoi

Usage notes
The 🇨🇬 (as mentioned by Tacitus) and the Ancient Greek term (as mentioned by Ptolemy) have ambiguous ancient meanings. The Finnish and broader Baltic Finnic peoples as they are known today were not well documented at the time, and it is unlikely that refers to them specifically. Rather, the term more likely referred to the Sami people (who at the time occupied most of what is now Finland), or more vaguely to far northern Europeans in general.

However, Finns as an ethnicity became far better documented (especially in Viking chronicles) during the Middle Ages. Today, the modern Greek term specifically refers to the Finnish people.