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English

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Etymology 1

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17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 151:
      As there was a small establishment that vended tea and toast just across the road, it was reasonable that Partridge should officiate therein as Limpet's host, and so easily adjusted to necessity are the economics of a simple life, that two pots of tea, two plates of toast, tobacco, and one subject of conversation, kept them occupied contentedly till ten o'clock.
    • 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 1 October 2025:
      Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.
    • 2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com‎[3], archived from the original on 4 November 2020:
      Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.
  2. (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
    • 2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:
      As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
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Noun

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vend (plural vends)

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

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Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

Noun

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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.

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Anagrams

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, an adjectival formation from earlier *wena, itself a gerund formation from vë.[2][3] The term has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare Οὐένδων (Ouéndōn)); note also Proto-Celtic *wentā (“place, town”).

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Noun

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vend m (plural vende, definite vendi, definite plural vendet)

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

Declension

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Declension of vend
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vend vendi vende vendet
accusative vendin
dative vendi vendit vendeve vendeve
ablative vendesh

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 170, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “vend”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 499
  3. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997), Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

Danish

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Etymology

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A back-formation of vende.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vend n (singular definite vendet, plural indefinite vend)

  1. a quick trip, run, visit

Declension

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Declension of vend
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vend vendet vend vendene
genitive vends vendets vends vendenes

Verb

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vend

  1. imperative of vende

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Estonian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

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

Declension

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Declension of vend (ÕS type 22i/külm, d-n gradation)
singular plural
nominative vend vennad
accusative nom.
gen. venna
genitive vendade
partitive venda vendi
vendasid
illative venda
vennasse 		vendadesse
vennisse
inessive vennas vendades
vennis
elative vennast vendadest
vennist
allative vennale vendadele
vennile
adessive vennal vendadel
vennil
ablative vennalt vendadelt
vennilt
translative vennaks vendadeks
venniks
terminative vennani vendadeni
essive vennana vendadena
abessive vennata vendadeta
comitative vennaga vendadega
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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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vend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

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Adjective

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vend (not comparable)

  1. Wendish, Sorbian

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative vend vendek
accusative vendet vendeket
dative vendnek vendeknek
instrumental venddel vendekkel
causal-final vendért vendekért
translative venddé vendekké
terminative vendig vendekig
essive-formal vendként vendekként
essive-modal vendül —
inessive vendben vendekben
superessive venden vendeken
adessive vendnél vendeknél
illative vendbe vendekbe
sublative vendre vendekre
allative vendhez vendekhez
elative vendből vendekből
delative vendről vendekről
ablative vendtől vendektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		vendé vendeké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		vendéi vendekéi

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Compound words

Noun

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vend (plural vendek)

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

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative vend vendek
accusative vendet vendeket
dative vendnek vendeknek
instrumental venddel vendekkel
causal-final vendért vendekért
translative venddé vendekké
terminative vendig vendekig
essive-formal vendként vendekként
essive-modal — —
inessive vendben vendekben
superessive venden vendeken
adessive vendnél vendeknél
illative vendbe vendekbe
sublative vendre vendekre
allative vendhez vendekhez
elative vendből vendekből
delative vendről vendekről
ablative vendtől vendektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		vendé vendeké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		vendéi vendekéi
Possessive forms of vend
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vendem vendjeim
2nd person sing. vended vendjeid
3rd person sing. vendje vendjei
1st person plural vendünk vendjeink
2nd person plural vendetek vendjeitek
3rd person plural vendjük vendjeik

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Further reading

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  • vend in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Lombard

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Etymology

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Akin to Italian vendere, from Latin.

Verb

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vend

  1. to sell

Middle English

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Noun

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vend (plural vendes)

  1. alternative form of fend

Norman

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Verb

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vend

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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vend

  1. imperative of vende

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Of the verb venda (“to turn”).

Noun

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vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

  1. a turnaround, switch
  2. (poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one
  3. (weaving) outside of a woven fabric
  4. (weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric

Participle

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vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)

  1. past participle of venda

Verb

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vend

  1. imperative of venda
  2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venda

Etymology 2

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Participle

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vend (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vende)

  1. past participle of venna

Verb

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vend

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venna

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