wenden
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to travel; to go
Etymology
Inherited from Old English wendan (go, change, direct, alter, convert, happen, wend, vary, restore, wend ones way, turn, translate, depart, return) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (turn).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wandijaną
Gloss
turn
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bewend English
- miswend English
- wander English
- wend English
- wendeth English
- *wendʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *gāną Proto-Germanic
- *wandijaną Proto-Germanic
- awendan Old English
- bewendan Old English
- edwendan Old English
- gewendan Old English
- miswendan Old English
- onwendan Old English
- oþwendan Old English
- wendan Old English
- wending Old English
- venda Old Norse
- wenten Old High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- wenden Old Dutch
- *väntädäk Proto-Finnic
- wendian Old Saxon