fand

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

• IPA^(key): /fænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

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

• NADF, NFA'd, DAFN, NFAd

• IPA^(key): /fant/

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

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of finden

fand

1. (Northern) alternative form of fonden

• IPA^(key): /fɑnd/

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of findan

fand

1. soft mutation of band