findan

findan

1. third-person plural present indicative of findar

From Proto-West Germanic *finþan.

findan

1. to find

• anafindan
• bifindan
• gifindan

• Middle Dutch: vinden
  • Dutch: vinden
  • Limburgish: vinje

• “findan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfin.dɑn/

findan

1. to find
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Ġef ðē þurh trēowa findon þā ðe þē findon, sile mē þā trēowa. Ġȳt ġyf ðē þurh ōðerne creft hwilcne findan þā ðe þē findan, forġyf mē þone creft. Ġyf þē þurh wȳsdōm findon þā ðe þē findon, forġyf mē þonne wȳsdōm...

     If it is by faith that they find Thee who do find Thee, give me that faith. If by any other power they find Thee who do find Thee, give me that power. If by wisdom they find Thee who find Thee, then give me wisdom.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

     Sege us nu hwǣr se ealda hord sy þe þu digelice fundest and hine eall oþ nu bedyrndest...

     Tell us now where the old treasure is which thou hast secretly found, and concealed it all until now?

2. to meet

In both Early and Late West Saxon, the past tense of findan was often irregular (although regular forms occurred as well), with a stem fund- resembling that of a class 1 weak verb with syncope in the past tense, e.g. settan, wendan. The resulting forms were funde for the 1st and 3rd person singular and fundest for the 2nd person singular; the past plural form, fundon, was unchanged. This likely occurred by analogy with the past subjunctive forms. While evidence from Middle English suggests that the weak forms may have occurred in at least a small part of the Mercian dialect area as well, they are not observed in any "pure" Mercian Old English text (i.e one without mixed Mercian and non-Mercian dialect features).

• mētan

• āfindan
• ġefindan
• onfindan

• Middle English: finden
  • English: find
    • Sranan Tongo: feni, findi (obsolete)
      • Aukan: fénde, féni
      • Saramaccan: féndi, féni
      • → Caribbean Javanese: féni
    • → Welsh: ffeindio
  • Scots: find, fynd

From Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną. Cognate with Old Saxon findan, Old Dutch findan, Old English findan, Old Frisian finda, Old Norse finna, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (finþan).

findan

1. to find

• Middle High German: vinden
  • Alemannic German: fianda (Vorarlberg)
  • Bavarian: findn

    Cimbrian: vènnan, bènnan, vennen, vintan

    Mòcheno: vinnen

  • Central Franconian: finge, fenge, fenne, fönne, fonne
    • Luxembourgish: fannen
  • German: finden
  • Yiddish: געפֿינען (gefinen)

• fīthan

From Proto-West Germanic *finþan.

findan

1. to find

• Low German: finnen