different between fend vs wend

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

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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

From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, direct, wend one’s way, go, return, change, alter, vary, restore, happen, convert, translate”), from Proto-Germanic *wandijan? (“to turn”), causative of Proto-Germanic *windan? (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wend?- (“to turn, wind, braid”). Cognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /w?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

wend (third-person singular simple present wends, present participle wending, simple past and past participle wended or (archaic) went)

1. (transitive, obsolete, revived by Anglish purists but not used elsewhere) To turn; change.
2. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.

     with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

Usage notes

The modern past tense of wend is wended. Originally it was went, similarly to pairs such as send/sent, spend/spent, lend/lent, rend/rent, or blend/blent. However, went was co-opted as the past tense of go (replacing Early Modern English yede, Middle English yeed, Old English eode) and using it as the past tense of wend is now considered archaic.

Synonyms

• to betake oneself

Derived terms

• bewend
• wander
• wending

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Noun

wend (plural wends)

1. (obsolete, Britain, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

References

• wend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “wend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• wénn, winn, wind

Etymology

From Old High German wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz. Cognate with German Wind, Dutch wind, English wind, Icelandic vindur, Gothic ???????????????????? (winds).

Noun

wend m

1. (Rimella and Campello Monti) wind

References

• “wend” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nt]
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

wend

1. first-person singular present indicative of wenden
2. imperative of wenden