fand

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fænd/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• 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)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
2. (obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
3. (obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.

Derived terms

• fanding

Etymology 2

From Middle English , from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).

Verb

fand

1. (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

Anagrams

• DAFN, NADF

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fant/

• Audio (Austria)

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Homophone: Pfand (regional)

Verb

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of finden

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑnd/

Verb

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of findan

Welsh

Noun

fand

1. Soft mutation of band.

Mutation