wendan

Etymology
From, from , originally ‘to make something twist or wind’, a causative form of (whence ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to turn
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL"
 * "ang"

- Ic bidde eow, wendað min heafod adune, and astreccað mine fet wið heofonas weard: ne eom ic wyrðe þæt ic swa hangige swa min Drihten.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's 
 * "ang"

- Hīe wendon heora bæc tō him.


 * 1) * c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
 * "ang"

- Simle went sē mōna his hryċġ tō þǣre sunnan, þæt is sē sinewealta ende þe þǣr onlīehted biþ.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, “The First Sunday in Lent”
 * "ang"

- Þā Crist hyngrede æfter swā langum firste, þā wēnde sē dēofol þæt hē Crist nǣre, and cwæþ tō him, “Hwȳ hyngreþ þē? Ġif þū Godes sunu sīe, wend þās stānas tō hlāfum and et!”


 * 1)  to change
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- For þām hit nis nā unnytt þæt wē hopiġen tō Gode, for þām hē ne went nā swā swǣ wē dōþ.


 * 1) to translate
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Ælfrēd cyning wende þās bōc of Bōclǣdene on Englisċ.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's 
 * "ang"

- Þā iċ þā ġemunde hū sēo lār Lǣdenġeþēodes ǣr þissum āfeallen wæs ġeond Angelcynn, and þēah maniġe cūðon Englisċ ġewrit ārǣdan, þā ongann iċ þā bōc wendan on Englisċ þe is ġenemnedu on Lǣden Pāstorālis and on Englisċ Hierdebōc, hwīlum word be worde, hwīlum andġiet of andġiete.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's 
 * "ang"

- Þā iċ þisses ealles ġemunde, þā wundrode iċ swīðe swīðe þāra gōdena witena þe ġeō wǣron ġeond Angelcynn and þā bēċ ealle be fullan ġeleornode hæfdon, þæt hīe heora þā nānne dǣl noldon on heora āgen ġeþēode wendan. Ac iċ þā sōna eft mē selfum andwyrde and cwæþ: hīe ne wēndon þætte ǣfre menn sċolden swā rēċelēase weorðan and sēo lār swā oþfeallan.


 * 1)  to go or depart
 * 2) to happen