WEND

wend

(verb) direct one’s course or way; “wend your way through the crowds”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive, obsolete) To turn; change.

(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.

(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

Noun

wend (plural wends)

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

Etymology

Noun

Wend (plural Wends)

A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.

A term used for Slavic peoples living anywhere in the vicinity of German-speaking areas.

Source: Wiktionary

Wend, obs.

Definition: p. p. of Wene. Chaucer.

Wend, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wended, Obs. Went; p. pr. & vb. n. Wending.] Etym: [AS. wendan to turn, to go, caus. of windan to wind; akin to OS. wendian, OFries. wenda, D. wenden to turn, G. wenden, Icel. venda, Sw. vända, Dan. vende, Goth. wandjan. See Wind to turn, and cf. Went.]

1. To go; to pass; to betake one's self. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. To Athens shall the lovers wend. Shak.

2. To turn round. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Wend, v. t.

Definition: To direct; to betake;- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively. "Great voyages to wend." Surrey.

Wend, n. (O. Eng. Law)

Definition: A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. [Obs.] Burrill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition