Etymograph

English

finding

Finding comes from Middle English fyndyng.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fyndyng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1844finding

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fyndyng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1844finding

Earliest quotation: 1844, John O’Brien, O’Brien’s Philadelphia Wholesale Business Directory: “Boot and Shoe Findings and Leather Establishments[…] Yocum &…”

Formed from find + -ing

Proto-Indo-European *pent- ‘to go’

Proto-Germanic *finþaną ‘to find’

Proto-West Germanic *finþan ‘to find’

Old English findan ‘to find’

Middle English finden ‘to find’

English find

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pent- ‘to go, pass’

path, patrol, pad, faze, pontiff, sputnik, pontoon, pons, pontifical, pontifex, 14 more

Today it means

noun A result of research or an investigation.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Middle English fyndyng / finding

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