different between pend vs hend
pend
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p?nd/
- Homophone: penned
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /p?nd/
- Homophone: pinned
- Rhymes: -?nd
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pend?re, from Latin pend?re.
Verb
pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)
- (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down [15th-19th c.]
- (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
- (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- pending upon certain powerful motives
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
Noun
pend (plural pends)
- (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard. [from 15th c.]
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:alley
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare pen (“to shut in”).
Verb
pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)
- (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.
- 1564, Erasmus, NicholasUdall, Apophthegms
- soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron
- 1564, Erasmus, NicholasUdall, Apophthegms
Etymology 3
Back-formation from pending.
Verb
pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)
- (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something). [from 20th c.]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 817:
- The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 817:
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
pend (uncountable)
- (India) oil cake
Anagrams
- NDPE
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??/
Verb
pend
- third-person singular present indicative of pendre
Scots
Noun
pend (plural pends)
- An arch, vault.
- A passageway between houses.
Spanish
Etymology
Shortening of pendejo
Noun
pend m or f (plural pends)
- (slang) dumbass; retard; plonker
pend From the web:
- what pending means
- what pending means in snapchat
- what pending means in real estate
- what pendejo
- what pendeja mean
- what pending transaction mean
- what pendeja means in english
- what pending payment mean
hend
English
Etymology
From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ?ehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijan? (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)
- (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1
- Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1
Anagrams
- Dehn
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)
- (rare) alternative form of hende n
Participle
hend (neuter hendt, definite singular and plural hende)
- past participle of henda
Verb
hend
- imperative of henda
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of henda
References
- “hend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ?ehendan, from Proto-West Germanic *handijan.
Verb
hend (simple past hent)
- to hold
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
hend From the web:
- what henry did
- what gender
- what's hendersons relish
- what's henderson zip code
- spongebob gender
- hinder you
- what henderson equation
- what henderson intermediate