different between wend vs wkend

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

Noun

wkend (plural wkends)

1. Abbreviation of weekend.