fand
See also: Fand
English
Pronunciation
- 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”), Dutch dialectal 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
- (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fant/
Audio (Austria) (file) - Rhymes: -ant
- Homophone: Pfand (regional)
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑnd/
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