different between fane vs fand

English

Alternative forms

• faine (obsolete)
• phane (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophones: feign, foehn, fain (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Compare vane.

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

1. (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
   • 1801, John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, page 541,

     The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the fanes, were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.

2. (obsolete) A banner, especially a military banner.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fane (“temple”), from Latin fanum (“temple, place dedicated to a deity”). Doublet of fanum.

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

2. A temple or sacred place.
   • 1850, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volume 16, page 64,

     Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina, or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.

   • 1884, Henry David Thoreau, Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, page 78,

     The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.

   • 1993 [1978], H. P. Blavatsky, Boris de Zirkoff (editor), The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, page 458,

     And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.

Related terms

• profane

Anagrams

• NEFA, neaf

French

Etymology

From faner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan/

Noun

fane f (plural fanes)

1. (archaic) dry leaf
2. (cooking) The leaves attached to vegetables, but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those of carrot, radishes and cauliflowers.
3. (horticulture, agriculture) The leaves of any vegetable which is not itself a leaf vegetable, and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as those of potatoes, tomatoes and beans.

Further reading

• “fane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fana.

Alternative forms

• fone, fanu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n(?)/

Noun

fane

2. (rare) A particular kind of white-coloured iris.

References

• “f?ne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English fana, from Proto-Germanic *fanô; doublet of fanon.

Alternative forms

• vane, vaane, phane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n(?)/
• (Southern ME) IPA^(key): /?va?n(?)/

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

2. A flag or gonfalon; a piece of fabric or other visible structure used for identification on the field.
3. A flag borne on sea-going vessels, especially a long triangular one.
4. A weathervane or weathercock (used to indicate changeableness)

Descendants

• English: fane, vane
• Scots: fane, faan, thane, phane

References

• “f?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin f?num, from Proto-Italic *faznom.

Alternative forms

• phane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n(?)/

Noun

fane

2. (rare) A temple, especially that used to worship Roman gods.

Descendants

• English: fane

References

• “f?ne, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fanden, fandien, from Old English fandian (“to try, attempt, tempt, test, examine, explore, search out, seek to know, experience, visit”), from Proto-Germanic *fand?n? (“to seek, inquire”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to come, go”). Cognate with North Frisian fanljien (“to visit”), dialectal Dutch vanden, German fahnden (“to search”). Related to find.

Verb

fand (third-person singular simple present fands, present participle fanding, simple past and past participle fanded)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour.
2. (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
3. (obsolete, transitive, Britain dialectal) To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.

Derived terms

• fanding

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).

Verb

fand

1. (dialectal) simple past tense of find.

Anagrams

• DAFN, NADF

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Homophone: Pfand (regional)

Verb

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of finden

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nd/

Verb

fand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of findan