Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bewend

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-wend
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To turn; turn around.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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, [...]"
"In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going."

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: bewenden, bewendan, *biwandijan, *biwandijaną

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

bewends (present, singular) bewending (participle, present) bewent (participle, past) bewent (past) bewended (participle, past) bewended (past)

Questions

What does bewend mean?: To turn; turn around.
Where does bewend come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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