onfindan

From Proto-West Germanic *andifindan. Cognate with Old Saxon andfindan and Old High German intfindan. Equivalent to on- +‎ findan.

• IPA^(key): /onˈfin.dɑn/

onfindan

1. to find
2. to find out, discover
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Þā Seneca þā onfunde þæt hē dēad bēon sċolde, þā bēad hē ealle his ǣhte wiþ his fēore.

     When Seneca found out he was going to die, he offered all his possessions in exchange for his life.

3. to feel, experience

• onfundennes

• āfandian

• āþenċan

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “onfindan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.