fand

Meaning

Verb

• To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
• To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
• To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.
• Past of find.

Origin

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