wend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“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 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).
Inflected forms:
form: wends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: wendest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: wendedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: wends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wendeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: wend
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: wending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: went
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We wended our weary way westward.
And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.
The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.
Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.
This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team
gloss: To turn; change, to adapt.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water
gloss: To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Synonyms: to betake oneself
Related words: wind
Derived words: bewend
wander
wending
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