fynden

From Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan (with levelled Verner's Law alternations), from from Proto-Germanic *finþaną. Compare fonden, founden.

• finden, fynd, fynde
• vinde, vynde (Kent, Southwest Midland); findenn (Ormulum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːndən/, /ˈfindən/

fynden (third-person singular simple present fyndeth, present participle fyndynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fond, past participle founden)

1. (ambitransitive) To come across or meet; to acquire awareness of:
   • c. 1300, “[Prologue]”, in Curſoꝛ Mundı (Trinity College MS. R. 3.8), Staffordshire, published c. 1400, folio 1, recto, column 2; republished at Cambridge: Trinity College, 23 June 2017:

     And vche fruyt þͭ men may fynde / He haþ from þe rote hıs kynde / Of good pıre com gode perus / Werse tre wers fruyt berus

     […] and [for] every fruit that people might encounter, / it acquires its nature from the root; / good pears come from a good peartree, / a worse tree bears worse fruit.

   1. To discover or find out about; to acquire knowledge of.
   2. To detect or discern (a characteristic, fault, or wrong)
2. (transitive) To experience or encounter (a condition or state):
   1. To undergo or suffer (a negative experience)
   2. To view or consider (from experience)
      • c. 1300, “Hereþ now of þe trinite dere / And of þe makyng of þıs woꝛld here”, in Curſoꝛ Mundı (Trinity College MS. R. 3.8), Staffordshire, published c. 1400, folio 3, recto, column 1; republished at Cambridge: Trinity College, 23 June 2017:

        Þe elementıs þ^t al þing byndes / ffoure þ͛ ben as clerkes fyndes / þe loweſt hıt ıs watır and erþe / þe þrıdde ıs eyr ⁊ fuyr þe ferþe

        The elements that compose everything / there are four as scholars find: / the lowest are water and earth, / the third is air, and the fourth is fire.

   3. (law) To determine, decide, or judge.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Joon 18:38, folio 53, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        pilat ſeiþ to hym / what is treuþe .· and whãne he hadde ſeid þis þing .· efte he wente out to þe iewis ⁊ ſeide to hem / I fynde no cauſe in hym

        Then Pilate said to him, "What's truth?". When he'd said that, he headed out towards the Jews and told them, "I can't find a charge against him."

3. (ambitransitive) To locate or secure (that searched for):
   • c. 1180, Orͬm, “Secundum Lucam .I. [Luke 1:5] / Secundum Lucam .II. [Luke 1:18]”, in Orͬmulum (Bodleian MS. Junius 1), Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire, folio 20, verso, column 1; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     Forͬ fra þatt hıre make ıſſ dæd⹎ Ne kepeþþ ᵹho nan oþerr. Acc ſerrᵹͪeþþ aᵹᵹ forͬþı ꝥ ᵹho. Ne maᵹᫌ himͫ noƿƿhar fındenn

     Because whenever her mate is dead, she doesn't get another, but always grieves since she can't find him anywhere.

   1. (transitive) To provide or obtain; to secure a supply.
   2. (transitive) To ascertain, determine, or solve; to locate the answer to.
4. (transitive) To invent or devise; to newly create:
   1. To create or compose (a creative work)
   2. To concoct or fabricate (a deception)
5. (transitive) To fund or support (usually a person)

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

• “fī̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.
• “find, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Rettger, James Frederick (1934), “The Development of Ablaut in the Strong Verbs of the East Midland Dialects of Middle English”, in Language (Language Dissertations; 16)‎^[2], volume 10, number 4, Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, part 1 (Verbs of the Regular Ablaut Classes), chapter 3 (Verbs of the Third Ablaut Class), pages 34-44.

fynden

1. definite plural of fynd