An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fahnden

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, F
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2554940An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, F — fahndenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

fahnden, verb, ‘to inform against,’ from Middle High German vanden, Old High German fânton, ‘to visit’; compare Old Saxon fandian, Anglo-Saxon fandian, ‘to test, beseech, demand’; probably from a root fenþ in finden (compare Dutch vanden, ‘to visit a woman in childbed’).