Meanings
present singular third person bewends · participle present bewending · participle past bewent · past bewent · participle past bewended · past bewended
- dialectaltransitiveTo turn; turn around.
In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going.
2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?1 more example
Glowing under day's warm sunning, Sparkling with thy ripples' running, Taking to thee brooks and rills, Valley-draining, dell-bewending, Water-taking, water- sending, Down to dairy farms and mills, [...]
1971, William Barnes, One hundred poems - Page 62
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*biwandijaną
- Proto-West Germanic*biwandijan
- Old Englishbewendan“to turn around”
- Middle Englishbewenden
- Englishbewend
From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwandijan, from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną. By surface analysis, be- + wend.
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