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wend

  [wend] verb, wend⋅ed or (Archaic) went; wend⋅ing.
Use wend in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to pursue or direct (one's way).
–verb (used without object)
2. to proceed or go.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME wenden, OE wendan; c. D, G wenden, Goth wandjan, causative of -windan to wind 2

Wend

  [wend]
–noun
a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
Origin:
1780–90; < G Wende, OHG Winida; c. OE Winedas (pl.)
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Sorb   (sôrb)   
n.  A member of a Slavic people inhabiting the region of Lusatia in eastern Germany and southwest Poland. Also called Wend.

[German Sorbe, perhaps variant of Serbe, Serb, from Serbian Srb, Serb.]
wend   (wěnd)   
v.   wend·ed, wend·ing, wends

v.   tr.
To proceed on or along; go: wend one's way home.
v.   intr.
To go one's way; proceed.

[Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan.]
Wend   (wěnd)   
n.  See Sorb.

[German Wende, from Middle High German Winde, Wende, from Old High German Winid; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Wend adj.
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Word Origin & History

wend 
"to proceed on," O.E. wendan "to turn, go," from P.Gmc. *wandijanan (cf. O.S. wendian, O.N. venda, O.Fris. wenda, Du. wenden, Ger. wenden, Goth. wandjan "to turn"), causative of O.E. windan "to turn, twist" (see wind (2)), from base *wand-, *wend- "turn." Surviving only in to wend one's way, and in hijacked past tense form went.

Wend 
member of a Slavic people of eastern Germany, 1614 (implied in Wendish), from Ger. Wende, from O.H.G. Winida, related to O.E. Winedas "Wends," ult. from Celt. *vindo- "white."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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