The story
- Latinfīnis
- Latinfīniō
- Old Frenchfinir
- Middle Englishfinishen
- English todayfinish
From Middle English finishen, finisshen, finischen, from Old French finiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir, from Latin fīnīre, from fīnis (“end, limit, border, boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”).
Words from the same roots
Latinfīnīre all →
fine
Proto-Indo-European*dʰeygʷ- all →
fixdigfichu
Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.