Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wend
Participle: wended
Gerund: wending
Indicative
Present
| I | wend |
| you | wend |
| he;she;it | wends |
| we | wend |
| you | wend |
| they | wend |
Perfect
| I | have wended; went |
| you | have wended; went |
| he;she;it | has wended; went |
| we | have wended; went |
| you | have wended; went |
| they | have wended; went |
Past
| I | wended |
| you | wended |
| he;she;it | wended |
| we | wended |
| you | wended |
| they | wended |
Pluperfect
| I | had wended; went |
| you | had wended; went |
| he;she;it | had wended; went |
| we | had wended; went |
| you | had wended; went |
| they | had wended; went |
Future
| I | will wend |
| you | will wend |
| he;she;it | will wend |
| we | will wend |
| you | will wend |
| they | will wend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wended; went |
| you | will have wended; went |
| he;she;it | will have wended; went |
| we | will have wended; went |
| you | will have wended; went |
| they | will have wended; went |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wend |
| you | wend |
| he;she;it | wend |
| we | wend |
| you | wend |
| they | wend |
Perfect
| I | have wended; went |
| you | have wended; went |
| he;she;it | have wended; went |
| we | have wended; went |
| you | have wended; went |
| they | have wended; went |
Imperfect
| I | wended |
| you | wended |
| he;she;it | wended |
| we | wended |
| you | wended |
| they | wended |
Pluperfect
| I | had wended; went |
| you | had wended; went |
| he;she;it | had wended; went |
| we | had wended; went |
| you | had wended; went |
| they | had wended; went |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wend |
| you | would wend |
| he;she;it | would wend |
| we | would wend |
| you | would wend |
| they | would wend |
Perfect
| I | would have wended; went |
| you | would have wended; went |
| he;she;it | would have wended; went |
| we | would have wended; went |
| you | would have wended; went |
| they | would have wended; went |
Imperative
| you | wend |
| we | Let's wend |
| you | wend |
Verbs similar to 'wend'
bend,
end,
fend,
hend,
lend,
mend,
pend,
rend,
send,
tend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Cf. Old English weak verbs byldan (build), gyldan (gild), bendan (bend), rendan (rend), sendan (send), scendan (shend),
spendan (spend), wendan (wend).
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "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.
2. 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”).
3. 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 2). See: Middle English '
wenden', Old English '
wendan', Proto-Germanic '
*wandijaną', Dutch '
wenden', German, old spelling '
wenden', Danish '
vende', Norwegian '
vende', Norwegian, nynorsk '
venda', Swedish '
vända', Icelandic '
venda'.
Verbs referencing "wend"
Norwegian, nynorsk
venda.
Sample Sentences
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We wended our weary way westward.
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And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende. [1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:]
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The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity. [1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History:]
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Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master. [2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:]
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This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team [2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED:]
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with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water [c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.:]