fand
See also: Fand
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English fanden, fandien, from Old English fandian (“to try, attempt, tempt, test, examine, explore, search out, seek to know, experience, visit”), from Proto-Germanic *fandōną (“to seek, inquire”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to come, go”). Cognate with North Frisian fanljien (“to visit”), dialectal Dutch vanden, German fahnden (“to search”). Related to find.
Verb edit
fand (third-person singular simple present fands, present participle fanding, simple past and past participle fanded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
- (obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
- (obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).
Verb edit
fand
- (dialectal) simple past of find.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And lent her wary eare to understand
If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand
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Welsh edit
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fand
- Soft mutation of band.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
band | fand | mand | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |