'tend

Shortening of attend or hypercorrection of tend to reflect its etymology

'tend (third-person singular simple present 'tends, present participle 'tending, simple past and past participle 'tended)

1. Obsolete form of tend.
   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XIII, in Jennie Gerhardt‎:

     Now, ma, I'll 'tend to that.

• Dent, dent