vend

vend

See also: Vend

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛnd/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

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.
   • 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     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:

     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.

Derived terms

• vending machine

 

Related terms

• revend
• vendor
• vendue

 

Noun

vend (plural vends)

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

Translations

sale

Bulgarian: продажба (bg) f (prodažba) Finnish: myynti (fi) French: vente (fr) f Georgian: გაყიდვა (gaq̇idva) German: Vertrieb (de) m Spanish: venta (es) f Turkish: satış (tr)

Etymology 2

Compare wynn.

Noun

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.

Further reading

• vend (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D. Nev.

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) ven [vɛn]
• (Gheg) venn [vɛnd] [1]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, from earlier *wena. A gerund formation from vë.[2] Has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare Οὐένδων (Ouéndōn)).

Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of vend

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)			definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)		singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	(një) vend	(disa) vende		vendi	vendet
accusative (kallëzore)	(një) vend	(disa) vende		vendin	vendet
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	(një) vendi	(disa) vendeve		vendit	vendevet
dative (dhanore)	(një) vendi	(disa) vendeve		vendit	vendevet
ablative (rrjedhore) (prej)	(një) vendi	(disa) vendesh		vendit	vendevet

Derived terms

• vendos
• vendor
• vendim

Related terms

• vë

See also

• vis
• visele

References

1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 170, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
2. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/, [vɛnˀ]

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

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Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

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

Declension

Declension of vend (type külm)

	singular	plural
nominative	vend	vennad
genitive	venna	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

Related terms

• õde
• vennas
• veli

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

vend (not comparable)

1. Wendish, Sorbian

Declension

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

Derived terms

Compound words

• Vendvidék

 

Noun

vend (plural vendek)

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

Declension

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

See also

• szlovén

Further reading

• vend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian vendere, from Latin.

Verb

vend

1. to sell

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Middle English

Noun

vend (plural vendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

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Norman

Verb

vend

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Of the verb venda (“to turn”).

Noun

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

vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venda

Verb

vend

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

Participle

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

1. past participle of venna

Verb

vend

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

References

• “vend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.