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You can make 15 words from wend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wend

wend ewnd wned nwed enwd newd wedn ewdn wden dwen edwn dewn wnde nwde wdne dwne ndwe dnwe endw nedw ednw denw ndew dnew

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Definitions and meaning of wend

wend

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).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /wɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

wend (third-person singular simple present wends, present participle wending, simple past and past participle wended or (archaic) went)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To turn; change, to adapt.
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.
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 and Middle English yede, Old English eode) and using it as the past tense of wend is now considered archaic.

The modern usage of wend is almost always accompanied by way.

Synonyms

• to betake oneself

Derived terms

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Noun

wend (plural wends)

1. (obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

References

Further reading

• “wend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “wend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• wénn, winn, wind

Etymology

From Middle High German wint, from Old High German wint.

Cognate with German Wind, Dutch wind, English wind, Icelandic vindur, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds).

Noun

wend m

1. (Rimella and Campello Monti) wind

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɛnt]
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

wend

1. inflection of wenden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

wend

1. singular imperative of wenden

Middle English

Noun

wend

1. Alternative form of wynd