An obsolete or dialect past participle of 'find,' meaning to have discovered or located something.
From Old English 'findan' and its past participle 'funden.' This shortened form 'foun' appeared in Middle English dialects before modern English standardized 'found' as the regular past tense and participle.
English used to have many irregular past tenses like 'foun,' 'speken,' and 'eaten,' but over centuries, these irregular forms got replaced by the regular '-ed' pattern—'foun' disappeared completely except in very old texts.
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