Wendish
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Wendish
1605–15; < German wendisch, equivalent to Wende Wend + -isch -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this was repeated and repeated, till the dull monotony of tyranny began to wear through the long Teutonic patience to the under-quick of Wendish madness.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"One of the senior officiating priests of St. Margaret's, Wendish Street, the London church where I did duty as junior curate."
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Similar letters were sent to the Wendish or Baltic cities, and to the bishops and landowners of Livonia and Esthonia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Italis calamita.—The name calamita, universal in Italian for the magnet, is also used in Roumanian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Wendish.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
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