hend
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛnd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology 1
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
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
From Middle English hende, from Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)
- (rare) alternative form of hende n
References
- “hend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English henden, henten, from Old English *hendan, ġehendan, from Proto-West Germanic *handijan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛnd/, /hɛnt/
Derived terms
References
- 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
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