different between wend vs hend

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.

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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

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