Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The people who speak Sorbian, or their descendants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the Wends; Wendic.

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  • adjective Of or relating to the Wends.
  • proper noun The language of the Wends.

Etymologies

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Wend +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Reading about the Hundred, Adica's people, the Wendish, the elves and the Quman, I love the fact that some elements are very familiar, such as the colour of a mythology or the logic behind a social injunction, but that they are never combined quite like their Earth equivalents/originals, and always with enough newness thrown in that I have to actually * learn* this new world, rather than just assuming it.

    kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF kateelliott 2009

  • The third POV, and the most interesting, is that of Rosvita, a churchwoman constructing an elaborate history of the Wendish peoples for the King's aged mother.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • The third POV, and the most interesting, is that of Rosvita, a churchwoman constructing an elaborate history of the Wendish peoples for the King's aged mother.

    King's Dragon & Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Awww, and here I was hoping that "Wenglish" stood for a Wendish/English pidgin.

    languagehat.com: WENGLISH. 2004

  • She answered in Wendish, which I hardly understood.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • By the end of the century, the Wendish towns had taken the leadership from the Gothland merchants.

    3. The Hanseatic League 2001

  • Bitter civil war against the Hohenstaufens (1125–35); vigorous policy of German expansion among the Wends and Scandinavians; renewal of Wendish conversions (1127).

    1125-37 2001

  • Gertrude has come a long way from the Geruthe who was daughter of a captive Wendish princess (a nice touch of Updike's own).

    It Happened at Elsinore Bayley, John 2000

  • Well here's couples moaning together in the lifeboats, a drunk's gone to sleep in the awning over Slothrop's head, fat fellows in white gloves with pink magnolias in their hair are dancing tummy-to-tummy and murmuring together in Wendish.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • During the twelfth century, the Wendish kingdom was dissolved, and its territories divided amongst different German princes, after which the Church gradually regained and extended its hold on the country.

    A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt

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