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
In point of fact the ballad recounts an old, old story, told in many literatures, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Magyar, Wendish, Bohemian, Catalan.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
He arrived off the Wendish coast without being in any way molested, and he anchored his fleet in the great bay of Stetten haven.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Leighton, Robert
Soon thereafter the rapidly developing neighboring cities of Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald, Anklam, and Stettin, usually called "the Wendish cities," became participants in the constitution thus granted.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Thus the Wallachians lay the scene at Orwoza, one of the Wendish ballads at Berlin, the Germans at Leipsic, the Dutch at Oudenarde, and—the people of the island of Funen at Svendborg!
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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