Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - wend
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(wends, wending, wended) If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction. (LITERARY) Sleepy-eyed commuters were wending their way to work. = make your way PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR prep/adv ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ~an; akin to Old High German wenten to turn, Old English windan to twist — more at wind Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to direct one's course ; travel transitive verb to proceed on (one's way) ; direct WEND noun Etymology: German ~e, from Old High German Winida; akin to Old English Winedas, plural, ~s Date: 1786 a member of a Slavic people of eastern Germany ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. & intr. literary or archaic go. Phrases and idioms wend one's way make one's way. Etymology: OE wendan turn f. Gmc, rel. to WIND(2) WEND n. a member of a Slavic people of N. Germany, now inhabiting E. Saxony. Derivatives Wendic adj. Wendish adj. Etymology: G Wende f. OHG Winida, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. венед, венет, венд (древнейшее наименование славянских племен западной ветви) wend 1. идти, направляться, двигаться to wend one's way home —- держать путь домой ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. wendan "to turn, go," from P.Gmc. *wandijanan, 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. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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