different between perambulation vs wend

English

Etymology

perambulate +? -ion; alternative surface analysis is per- +? ambulation.

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

1. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:

     If any Man for that rea?on has an Inclination to divert him?elf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ?upervi?e almo?t all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whim?ical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am re?olv’d to pur?ue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Bu?ine?s.

2. (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
3. The district thus inspected.

Quotations

• 1902: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

  Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.

• 1929: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

  The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

Synonyms

• (English legal ceremony) bannering

References

• Radin Law Dictionary, Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

Anagrams

• preambulation

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