fand

• Rhymes: -ænd

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.

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.

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2. (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
3. (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.

• fanding

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

fand

1. (dialectal) simple past tense of find.

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• IPA^(key): /fant/

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

fand

1. First-person singular preterite of finden.
2. Third-person singular preterite of finden.

• IPA^(key): /fɑnd/

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of findan