findig

finden +‎ -ig

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪndɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪndɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fin‧dig

findig (strong nominative masculine singular findiger, comparative findiger, superlative am findigsten)

1. resourceful

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “findig” in Duden online

• fyndiġ

From find +‎ -ig; the former from the verb findan, 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfin.dij/

findiġ

1. capable
2. considerable, good, heavy

   findig corn ― heavy corn

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• ġefindiġ (“capable”)

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

• 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.