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pend

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /p?nd/
  • Homophone: penned
    • (pinpen 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)

  1. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down [15th-19th c.]
  2. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault. [15th-18th c.]
  3. (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

Noun

pend (plural pends)

  1. (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)

  1. (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

Etymology 3

Back-formation from pending.

Verb

pend (third-person singular simple present pends, present participle pending, simple past and past participle pended)

  1. (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.

Etymology 4

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

Noun

pend (uncountable)

  1. (India) oil cake

Anagrams

  • NDPE

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??/

Verb

pend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of pendre

Scots

Noun

pend (plural pends)

  1. An arch, vault.
  2. A passageway between houses.

Spanish

Etymology

Shortening of pendejo

Noun

pend m or f (plural pends)

  1. (slang) dumbass; retard; plonker

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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)

  1. (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.

Anagrams

  • Dehn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)

  1. (rare) alternative form of hende n

Participle

hend (neuter hendt, definite singular and plural hende)

  1. past participle of henda

Verb

hend

  1. imperative of henda
  2. (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)

  1. 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

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