menden

See also: Menden and məndən

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛndən

Verb

menden

  1. inflection of mennen:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

menden

  1. inflection of mendar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Middle English

Etymology

    A aphetic form of amenden (“to alter, change (especially for the better); to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure; to excel, surpass; to forgive; to get or make better, improve; to make ready; to mend, repair, restore; to get well, recover; to relieve”),[1][2] or from its etymon Anglo-Norman amender and Old French amender (“to cure; to fix, repair; to set right, correct”) (modern French amender),[3] from Latin ēmendāre, the present active infinitive of ēmendō (“to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mendum (“defect; error, fault”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“defect; fault”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).

    Verb

    menden

    1. cure
    2. do good to, benefit
    3. do or make better, improve
    4. get better, recover
    5. keep in a good state
    6. put right, amend
    7. reform, repent

    Descendants

    • English: mend

    References

    1. ^ “mē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
    2. ^ “amē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
    3. ^ “menden, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “menden, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

    Old Dutch

    Etymology

    From Proto-Germanic *mandijaną.

    Verb

    menden

    1. to rejoice, to cheer

    Inflection

    Conjugation of menden (weak class 1)
    infinitive menden
    indicative present past
    1st person singular mendo, mendon mendida
    2nd person singular mendis mendidos
    3rd person singular mendit mendida
    1st person plural mendun mendidon
    2nd person plural mendit mendidot
    3rd person plural mendunt mendidon
    subjunctive present past
    1st person singular mende mendidi
    2nd person singular mendis mendidis
    3rd person singular mende mendidi
    1st person plural mendin mendidin
    2nd person plural mendit mendidit
    3rd person plural mendin mendidin
    imperative present
    singular mendi
    plural mendit
    participle present past
    mendendi mendit, gimendit

    Further reading

    • “menden”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

    Zazaki

    Verb

    menden

    1. reach a standstill
    2. to wait, stay
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