find

英[fa?nd] 美[fa?nd]

第三人稱單數:?finds;過去式:?found;過去分詞:?found;現在分詞:?finding;

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來自PIE*pent, 走，來自PIE*pod的鼻音形式，腳，詞源同foot.

find: find: [OE] Find is a widespread Germanic verb, with relations in German (finden), Dutch (vinden), Swedish (finna), and Danish (finde). Further back in time, however, its ancestry is disputed. Some have connected it with various words for ‘path, way’ in Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit panthās and Russian put’, and with related forms denoting ‘go, journey’, like Old Saxon fāthi ‘going’ and Old High German fendeo ‘walker’; others have suggested a link with Latin petere ‘seek’.
find (v.): Old English findan "come upon, meet with; discover; obtain by search or study" (class III strong verb; past tense fand, past participle funden), from Proto-Germanic *finthan "to come upon, discover" (cognates: Old Saxon findan, Old Frisian finda, Old Norse finna, Middle Dutch vinden, Old High German findan, German finden, Gothic fintan), originally "to come upon."

The Germanic word is from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go" (cognates: Old High German fendeo "pedestrian;" Sanskrit panthah "path, way;" Avestan panta "way;" Greek pontos "open sea," patein "to tread, walk;" Latin pons (genitive pontis) "bridge;" Old Church Slavonic poti "path," peta "heel;" Russian put' "path, way").

To find out "to discover by scrutiny" is from 1550s (Middle English had a verb, outfinden, c. 1300).
find (n.): "person or thing discovered, discovery of something valuable," 1825, from find (v.).

1. I will return, find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.: 我會回去，找到你，愛你，娶你，活的光明正大。《贖罪》

2. I have $100m hidden away where no one will ever find it.: 我把1億美元藏到了一個永遠沒人會找到的地方。

3. It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar.: 很難找到彼此間差異更大的人了。

5. Many parents find it hard to discourage bad behaviour.: 很多父母覺得要孩子循規蹈矩是件很難的事情。