different between pend vs vend

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)

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

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.