vend

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

1. to hawk or to peddle merchandise
2. to sell wares through a vending machine

• vending machine
• vendor

vend (plural vends)

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. (Britain, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Compare wynn.

vend (plural vends)

1. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
   • 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:

     [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...

   • 2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books (→ISBN), page 88:

     In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.

• D. Nev.

From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, from earlier *wena. A gerund formation from vë.[1] Has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare Ούένδων (Oúéndōn)).

vend m (indefinite plural vende, definite singular vendi)

1. place
2. location
3. (plot of) land

• vendos
• vendim
• kënd

• vë

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/, [vɛnˀ]

vend

1. imperative of vende

Possibly an irregular variant of veli (“brother”), influenced by Swedish vän (“friend”).

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

1. brother
2. (colloquial) guy, dude, fellow, chap

• õde
• vennas
• veli

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛnd]
• Hyphenation: vend

vend (not comparable)

1. Wendish, Sorbian

vend (plural vendek)

1. (dated) Slovene, Slovenian (person)
2. Wend, Sorb (person)
3. (singular only) Wendish, Sorbian (language)

• szlovén

vend (plural vendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre
2. second-person singular imperative of vendre

vend

1. imperative of vende

vend

1. imperative of venda