An archaic or dialectal past tense and past participle of 'find,' used in older texts and some regional dialects.
From Old English 'findan,' this is an archaic strong verb form. In modern English, we regularized 'find' to 'found,' but 'fand' survives in poetry and older literature as a relic of how verbs once changed irregularly.
Old English had lots of irregular verbs like 'fand' (found), but as English evolved, most got 'regularized'—now we say 'find-found-found' instead of 'find-fand-found'—showing how languages simplify over centuries!
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