W-endとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /wɛnd/
  • • (pin-pen merger) IPA: /wɪ̟nd/
• 韻: -ɛnd
• ハイフネーション: wend
• Homophone: wind (pin-pen merger), when'd

動詞

wend (third-person singular simple present wends, present participle wending, simple past and past participle wended or (archaic) went)

1. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

   We wended our weary way westward.

   • 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:

     And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History:

     The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.

   • 2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:

     Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.

   • 2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED‎:

     This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team

2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn; change, to adapt.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.:

     with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

使用する際の注意点

The modern past tense of wend is wended. Originally it was went, similarly to the pairs bend/bent, blend/blent, lend/lent, rend/rent, send/sent and spend/spent. However, went was co-opted as the past tense of go (replacing Early Modern English and Middle English yede, Old English eode) and using it as the past tense of wend is now considered archaic.

The modern usage of wend is almost always accompanied by way.

Conjugation

同意語

• to betake oneself

派生語

関連する語

• wind

名詞

wend (plural wends)

1. (obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

参照

Further reading

• “wend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “wend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

動詞

wend

1. singular imperative of wendan