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Wend sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wend sb. Also Vend; 8 Winde. [ad. G. Wende, Winde (pl. Wenden, Winden = Da. Vender, ON. Vindr, OHG. Winida, OE. Winedas, Weonod-, med.L. Venedi, Veneti), of doubtful origin.]

1   1.  A member of the Slavonic race now inhabiting Lusatia in the east of Saxony, but formerly extending over Northern Germany; a Sorb.

2 1786.  trans. J. R. Forster’s Hist. Voy. North, 101, note. The Vandals mentioned here, are indubitably the Wends, or that tribe of the Sclavonians which opposed the Moguls and the Tartars who fought under the banners of the latter.

3 1788.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), II. 700/1. (Austria), The Windes, who are mixed with the Germans in these countries.

4 1830.  Encycl. Metrop., XXI. 340. The Vends are a well-made, strong, courageous, and industrious people.

5 1843.  Penny Cycl., XXVI. 206/1. The language of the Vends … dates its first literature from the Reformation.

6 1861.  Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages, 155. Canute was still unable to subdue the Wends, who … made the Baltic a Slavonian lake.

7 1886.  Baring-Gould, Germany, xliii. 264. Henry I. had created the Margravate of Brandenburg as a bulwark against the heathen Wends, who lived on the Baltic.

8   2.  Southern Wends: (see quot.).

9 1822.  Encycl. Brit., Suppl. V. 242. In 640, the Sclavonians took possession of Illyria,… and they still retain it, under the names of Servians, Croatians, and Southern Wends. Ibid. The southern Wends … are now mixed with Germans in Carniola, Carinthia, and Lower Stiria.

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