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( transitive ) To encounter or discover by accident to happen upon.Verb "Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus", a painting by John William Waterhouseįind ( third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or ( dialectal ) fand, past participle found or ( archaic ) founden)

From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- ( “ to go, pass path bridge ” ), *póntoh₁s (compare English path, Old Irish étain ( “ I find ” ), áitt ( “ place ” ), Latin pōns ( “ bridge ” ), Ancient Greek πόντος ( póntos, “ sea ” ), Old Armenian հուն ( hun, “ ford ” ), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃‎ ( paṇtā̊ ), Sanskrit पथ ( pathá, “ path ” )), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь.