fand
See also: Fand
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fænd/
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
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
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.
Derived terms
- fanding
Etymology 2
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).
Verb
fand
- (dialectal) simple past tense of find.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- And lent her wary eare to understand
If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand
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Anagrams
- DAFN, NADF
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fant/
Audio (Austria) (file) - Rhymes: -ant
- Homophone: Pfand (regional)
Verb
fand
- first/third-person singular preterite of finden
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑnd/
Verb
fand
- first/third-person singular preterite of findan
Welsh
Noun
fand
- Soft mutation of band.
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||