different between minding vs mending

English

From Middle English mynding, myndyng, equivalent to mind +? -ing.

minding (plural mindings)

The act of taking heed of something.
- a. 1691, Richard Baxter, a sermon
  […] those holy breathings after God, and that sense of the evil of sin, and that conscience of duty, and those groans excited by the spirit of prayer, and those mindings of the things of another world […]

From mind +? -ing.

minding

mending

mending (plural mendings)

The act by which something is mended or repaired.
- 1844, Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (page 133)
  This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings […]

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