morfound

verb

1. To affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.

   obsolete, rare, transitive

   As doth an hors morfounded by the waye / Whiche none accompte doth set by sporre ne thynge

Where it comes from

From Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”), from Middle French morfondre (“to chill, to cool”), from Franco-Provençal mor, more (“snout”) + Middle French fondre (“to melt”), where the first part comes from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), and the second from Latin fundere. Cognate with French morfondre. The noun is inherited from Middle English mareffownd, mareffownde, likely from the Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry morfound (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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