hend
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijaną (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).
Verb edit
hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)
- (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- She flew at him like to an hellish feend,
And on his shield tooke hold with all her might,
As if that it she would in peeces rend,
Or reave out of the hand that did it hend
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1:
- Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.
Adjective edit
hend
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)
Participle edit
hend (neuter hendt, definite singular and plural hende)
- past participle of henda
Verb edit
hend
- imperative of henda
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of henda
References edit
- “hend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English henden, henten, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan, from Proto-West Germanic *handijan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hend
- to hold
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46