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the past tense of losing well.
means to locate something that was misplaced, or to establish something from scratch — the same word for luck and labor.
from from old english findan, meaning to come upon or discover, which forked oddly into found meaning to establish, from latin fundare, to lay a foundation — two unrelated roots collapsing into one spelling by accident.
double etymologydiscovery-found and foundation-found share no root
finders keeperslegally almost never actually true
lost and foundmost items never claimed within 90 days
for instance
dead sea scrolls — a shepherd found them in a cave, 1947
antikythera mechanism — sponge divers found it off greece, 1901
tutankhamun's tomb — howard carter found it nearly intact, 1922