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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin d?fend? (“to ward off”), from d?- +? *fend? (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“strike, kill”).

Verb

fend (third-person singular simple present fends, present participle fending, simple past and past participle fended)

1. (intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
   • 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act,^[2] U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,

     Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.

     Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.

   • 2003, Scott Turow, Reversible Errors, page 376

     The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.

2. (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).

   • With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.

   • 1999, Kuan-chung Lo, Guanzhong Luo, Luo Guanzhong, Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, page 39

     He fends, he blocks, too skillful to be downed.

   • 2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 187

     “ […] My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fend (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.

Etymology 2

From Middle English f?nd, feond, from Old English f?ond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of **fijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate”). More at fiend.

Noun

fend (plural fends)

1. (Britain dialectal) An enemy; fiend; the Devil.

Anagrams

• Fed'n, def'n, defn

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) fên(i)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spenda, from Proto-Indo-European *spand-, related to Ancient Greek ??????? (sphadáz?, “to shiver, tremble”), Sanskrit ??????? (spandate, “to quiver, shake”), Old Norse fisa (“to fart”), Norwegian fattr (“id”)).

Verb

fend (first-person singular past tense fenda, participle fendur)

1. I break wind, fart (silently)

Synonyms

• pjerdh

Derived terms

• fendur (participle)

Related terms

• fendë f (fëndë f)

Further reading

• [3] active verb fend • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

References

French

Verb

fend

1. third-person singular present indicative of fendre

Hungarian

Etymology

fen +? -d

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?nd]
• Hyphenation: fend

Verb

fend

1. second-person singular imperative present definite of fen

   Synonym: fenjed

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

fend (verbal noun fendeil, past participle fendit)

1. to protect, defend

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

fend (plural fendes or fendis)

1. Alternative form of feend

English

Etymology 1

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from v?num (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

1. To hawk or to peddle merchandise.
2. To sell wares, especially through a vending machine.
3. (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.

Related terms

• vending machine
• vendor
• vendue

Translations

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. (Britain, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare wynn.

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The letter ?/?, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (?, whence also Latin-script ?/?) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
   • 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:

     [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...

   • 2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books (?ISBN), page 88:

     In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.

Further reading

• vend (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D. Nev.

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) ven [v?n]
• (Gheg) venn [v?nd]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, from earlier *wena. A gerund formation from vë. Has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare ??????? (Ouénd?n)).

Noun

vend m (indefinite plural vende, definite singular vendi, definite plural vendet)

1. place
2. location
3. (plot of) land

Declension

Derived terms

• vendos
• vendor
• vendim

Related terms

• vë

See also

• vis
• visele

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/, [v?n?]

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly an irregular variant of veli (“brother”), influenced by Swedish vän (“friend”).

Noun

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

1. brother
2. (colloquial) guy, dude, fellow, chap

Declension

Related terms

• õde
• vennas
• veli

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/

Verb

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?nd]
• Hyphenation: vend
• Rhymes: -?nd

Adjective

vend (not comparable)

1. Wendish, Sorbian

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

vend (plural vendek)

1. (dated) Slovene, Slovenian (person)
2. Wend, Sorb (person)
3. (singular only) Wendish, Sorbian (language)

Declension

See also

• szlovén

Further reading

• vend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

vend (plural vendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Norman

Verb

vend

1. inflection of vendre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Of the verb venda (“to turn”).

Noun

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

1. a turnaround, switch
2. (poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one
3. (weaving) outside of a woven fabric
4. (weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric

Participle

vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venda

Verb

vend

1. imperative of venda
2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venda

Etymology 2

Participle

vend (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venna

Verb

vend

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venna

References

• “vend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.