# vend
## English
### Etymology 1

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛnd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnd

#### Verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)
* Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
** 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.
** 2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com‎:Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.
* (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
** 2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.

##### Derived terms

* vending machine

##### Related terms

* revend
* venal
* venality
* vendor
* vendue

#### Noun

vend (plural vends)
* The act of vending or selling; a sale.
* (UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

#### Noun

vend (plural vends)
* The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) 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

* vënd — Tosk
* (Gheg) ven [vɛn]
* (Gheg) venn [vɛnd]

### 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 Οὐένδων (Ouéndōn)).

### Noun

vend m (plural vende, definite vendi, definite plural vendet)
* place
* location
* (plot of) land

#### Derived terms

* vendos
* vendor
* vendim

#### Related terms

* vë

### See also

* vis
* visele

### References

* ↑ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 170, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
* ↑ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛn/, [vɛnˀ]

### Verb

vend
* imperative of vende

## Estonian
### Etymology

Possibly an irregular variant of veli (“brother”), influenced by Swedish vän (“friend”).

### Noun

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)
* brother
* (colloquial) guy, dude, fellow, chap

#### Related terms

* õde
* vennas
* veli

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

vend
* third-person singular present indicative of vendre

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛnd]
* Hyphenation: vend
* Rhymes: -ɛnd

### Adjective

vend (not comparable)
* Wendish, Sorbian

#### Derived terms

* Vendvidék

### Noun

vend (plural vendek)
* (dated) Slovene, Slovenian (person)
* Wend, Sorb (person)
* (singular only) Wendish, Sorbian (language)

#### Declension
### See also

* szlovén

### Further reading

* vend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian vendere, from Latin.

### Verb

vend
* to sell

## Middle English
### Noun

vend (plural vendes)
* Alternative form of fend

## Norman
### Verb

vend
* inflection of vendre:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

vend
* 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)
* a turnaround, switch
* (poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one
* (weaving) outside of a woven fabric
* (weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric

#### Participle

vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)
* past participle of venda

#### Verb

vend
* imperative of venda
* (non-standard since 2012) supine of venda

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

vend (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vende)
* past participle of venna

#### Verb

vend
* (non-standard since 2012) supine of venna

### References

* “vend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.