menden
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]menden
- inflection of mennen:
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]menden
- inflection of mendar:
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]menden
- cure
- do good to, benefit
- do or make better, improve
- get better, recover
- keep in a good state
- put right, amend
- reform, repent
Descendants
[edit]- English: mend
References
[edit]- ^ “mē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “amē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “menden, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “menden, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Old Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *mandijaną.
Verb
[edit]menden
Inflection
[edit]infinitive | menden | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | mendo, mendon | mendida |
2nd person singular | mendis, mendist | mendidos |
3rd person singular | mendit | mendida |
1st person plural | menden | mendidun |
2nd person plural | mendit | mendidut |
3rd person plural | mendent | mendidun |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st person singular | mende | mendidi |
2nd person singular | mendes, mendest | mendidis |
3rd person singular | mende | mendidi |
1st person plural | menden | mendidin |
2nd person plural | mendet | mendidit |
3rd person plural | menden | mendidin |
imperative | present | |
singular | mendi | |
plural | mendit | |
participle | present | past |
mendendi | mendit, gimendit |
Further reading
[edit]- “menden”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Zazaki
[edit]Verb
[edit]menden
- reach a standstill
- to wait, stay
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛndən
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛndən/2 syllables
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Latin
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Dutch lemmas
- Old Dutch verbs
- Old Dutch basic verbs
- Old Dutch class 1 weak verbs
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki verbs