lendes

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English lendenu pl (“loins”) (in compound lenden-, lende-), from Proto-Germanic *landį̄, *landijō (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“kidney, waist, loin”). Cognate with Dutch lendenen pl (“loins”), German Lende (“haunch, loin”), Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Icelandic lend (“loin”). More at loin.

Noun

lendes (plural)

  1. loins
    • Chaucer:
      He thakked hire aboute the lendes weel.
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