"finden" meaning in Middle English

See finden in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈfiːndən/, /ˈfindən/
Etymology: From Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan (with levelled Verner's Law alternations). Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|enm|ang|findan}} Old English findan, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*finþan}} Proto-West Germanic *finþan Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} finden, {{enm-verb|3=fand|4=founden|stem=find}} finden (third-person singular simple present findeth, present participle findende, findynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fand, past participle founden) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-st|find|fand|found|found|2a=found|2s2=finst|3a=fand|3s2=fint|c=3}} Forms: findeth [present, singular, third-person], findende [participle, present], findynge [participle, present], fand [first-person, indicative, past, singular, third-person], founden [participle, past], strong [table-tags], finden [infinitive], to finden [infinitive], finde [infinitive], finde [first-person, present, singular], fand [first-person, past, singular], found [first-person, past, singular], findest [present, second-person, singular], finst [present, second-person, singular], founde [past, second-person, singular], fande [past, second-person, singular], fand [past, second-person, singular], found [past, second-person, singular], findeth [present, singular, third-person], fint [present, singular, third-person], fand [past, singular, third-person], found [past, singular, third-person], finde [present, singular, subjunctive], founde [past, singular, subjunctive], fande [past, singular, subjunctive], finde [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], finden [plural, present], finde [plural, present], founden [past, plural], founde [past, plural], fanden [past, plural], fande [past, plural], findeth [imperative, plural, present], finde [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], findynge [participle, present], findende [participle, present], founden [participle, past], founde [participle, past], yfounden [participle, past], yfounde [participle, past]
  1. (transitive) to find; to discover Wikipedia link: Verner's Law Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-finden-enm-verb-3jQseWck Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries
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      "ipa": "/ˈfindən/"
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        "to find; to discover"
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      "ipa": "/ˈfiːndən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfindən/"
    }
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.