Etymology

fand

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Today it means: A fairy and the wife of Manannán mac Lir and later the lover of Cúchulainn. Full definition →

Middle English [Term?] ← Old English fand
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfindan“to find”
  2. Old English · inherited fromfand
  3. Middle English · inherited from[Term?]
  4. English todayfand

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

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfindan all →

find

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