Fand definition

(UK dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.

verb

To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour; make a shift.

verb

(UK dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.

verb

Simple past tense of find.

verb

Origin of fand

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.

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

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