vond Dutch · revision 37347

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1301–1350, Middle Dutch|origins=gem-pro *fundaz}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vɔnt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vond''' ''m'' (plural vonden, diminutive vondje n)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|dum|vont]], [[inh|odt|*fund]], [[inh|gmw-pro|*fund]], [[inh|gem-pro|*fundaz]], an ablaut noun to the verb [[vinden]] “to find”, formed from the stem of its past tense.^(Wiktionary)^(EWN)^(WNT) The same noun is [[gml|vunt]], [[gmh|vunt]] (modern [[de|Fund]]) and [[non|fundr]] (modern [[sv|fynd]]), all meaning “finding, what is found”.^(EWN)^(MNW)

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+ Its derivative [[vondst]] was formed with the ending ⟨-st⟩ on the model of [[dienst]], [[kunst]] and [[vangst]], and is found only in Dutch and Frisian.^(EWN)^(De Vries & De Tollenaere 2004|417) From the 19th century on it took over most of the senses of the older word.^(WNT)^(EWN)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Van Veen and Van der Sijs date Middle Dutch ''vont'' “what one finds” to 1301–1350.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997) An early-14th-century Flemish text tells that the plunder and the ''rike vont'', the rich treasure, were of no help to the captives, who all died.^(MNW) In 1380 a Flemish fief includes the fines, bastards' goods and ''de vond'', the found property.^(MNW)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Middle Dutch used ''vont'' for a found object, for a foundling (1400) and, from the treasure of popular belief, for any precious possession, even for Christ as ''onsen riken vont'' (1339).^(MNW) It also meant what the mind finds: an invention or device (1340), a poem, as in ''Dit is Jacobs vont'' (1339), and a trick or ruse.^(MNW) Kiliaan glosses ''vond'' both as Latin ''inventum'' and as ''dolus'' “ruse”, and ''vonst'' “trick” is dated 1365.^(MNW)^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

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+ In the 16th and 17th centuries the word meant a found good and the lord's right to it (1502), a southern excise term for the gauging of wine and beer (1563), and a clever idea or happy thought (1550, 1565), also a writer's inventive turn (1620).^(WNT) After the 19th century it survived only in archaic literary language and in dialects; in Groningen ''te vond leggen'' meant to abandon a child as a foundling.^(WNT) The idea of cleverness lives on in [[spitsvondig]].^(MNW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1301–1350 – Middle Dutch ''vont'' “what one finds”.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(MNW)

+ * 1339 – ''Vont'' “poem, literary invention”.^(MNW)

+ * 1365 – ''Vonst'' “trick”.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)

+ * 1400 – ''Vont'' “foundling”.^(MNW)

+ * 1502 – ''Vondt'', found property and the right to it.^(WNT)

+ * 1565 – ''Eenen vont vinden'', to think up a way out.^(WNT)

+ * 1844 – ''Vondst'' begins to replace it.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(Van der Sijs 2001)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(archaic)'' A [[m|en|find]], something found; the act of finding (now [[vondst]]).^(Wiktionary)^(WNT)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A clever idea, device or invention.^(WNT)^(MNW)

+ # ''(law, historical)'' Found property whose owner is unknown, and the right to it.^(WNT)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vondst]]

+ * [[strandvond]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vinden]]

+ * [[spitsvondig]]

+ * [[de|Fund]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Vond'' “find” should not be confused with Middle Dutch ''vont'' “baptismal font”, from [[m|la|fōns|t=spring]].^(VMNW)^(MNW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}