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Wendish

[ wen-dish ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Wends or their language; Sorbian.


Wendish

/ ˈwɛndɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Wends
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. the West Slavonic language of the Wends See also Sorbian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Wendish1

1605–15; < German wendisch, equivalent to Wende Wend + -isch -ish 1
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Example Sentences

"Dirty Wendish pigs," they said (which was their favourite malediction, though they themselves were Wend of the Wends).

Itzenplitz, the name of a family once of great consequence in the Mark of Brandenburg is ultra-Wendish.

He insisted on a personal interview with the aged Boguslav, the last of the old Wendish line.

Crowds of pilgrims have come from all the neighbouring villages, Wendish and Saxon.

That is the vestal hearth of the Wendish house, without which there would be no home.

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