wend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   direct one's course or way

   Wend your way through the crowds.

2. 2
   verb

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

   We wended our weary way westward.

3. 3
   verb

   To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.

   With the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water.

Simplified etymology

Wend is an Old English word related to wand and to wind in the sense “move in a twisting way.”

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...

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