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語源

From findan +‎ -ig; the former element is a verb from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare Dutch vinden, German finden, Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pontHo- (compare Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀 (paθa) (gen. paþō), Sanskrit पथ (patha, “path”)). Compare to Swedish fyndig.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfin.dij/

形容詞

findiġ

1. capable
2. considerable, good, heavy

   findig corn ― heavy corn

語形変化

関連する語

• ġefindiġ (“capable”)

派生した語

• Middle English: findige, findiȝ, fundie (“capable, effective, suitable”)
  • English: findy
  • Scots: findy, finny, finnie

参照

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “findig”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “findig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.