menden - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- Rhymes: -ɛndən
menden
- inflection of mennen:
menden
- inflection of mendar:
A aphetic form of amenden (“to alter, change (especially for the better); to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure; to excel, surpass; to forgive; to get or make better, improve; to make ready; to mend, repair, restore; to get well, recover; to relieve”),[1][2] or from its etymon Anglo-Norman amender and Old French amender (“to cure; to fix, repair; to set right, correct”) (modern French amender),[3] from Latin ēmendāre, the present active infinitive of ēmendō (“to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mendum (“defect; error, fault”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“defect; fault”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).
menden
- cure
- do good to, benefit
- do or make better, improve
- get better, recover
- keep in a good state
- put right, amend
- reform, repent
- English: mend
- ^ “mē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “amē̆nden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “menden, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “menden, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
From Proto-Germanic *mandijaną.
menden
- “menden”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
menden
- reach a standstill
- to wait, stay