Abound, on the other hand, comes as a verb (by way of Norman French) from Latin abundare, or in more detail from the OED:The posting discusses the history and modern usage of adjectival abound in English.
< Anglo-Norman abunder, abounder, habonder, habounder, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French abonder, Anglo-Norman and Middle French habunder (French abonder) (with de or en)
Norman abounder also appears to be the origin of our abouon.
- abouon d'gens = lots of people
- y'en avait-i' abouon? = were there lots?
- j'aim'thais abouon = I'd prefer, I'd rather
- pas d'abouon = not really
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