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Fand

//ˈfænd//

Definitions

name

1
A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn.

verbfands · fanding · fanded

1
To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
2
To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
3
simple past of find.
And lent her wary eare to understand If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand

Word 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, i...

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