From en.wiktionary.org:
[mënd]
** English
[2024]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en][en] From [en],[1] the [aphetic] form of [enm],[2] or from its [etymon]
[en] and [en] (modern [fr]),[3] from [en], the [present] [active] [infinitive]
of [la], from [la] (variant of [la]) + [la] (from [en]) + [la].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en]
1. To physically repair (something that is broken , defaced , decayed , torn , or otherwise damaged ).
2. * [Matthew]
3. * [letter=LIX]
4. * [volume=III]
5. * [story=Go Down, Moses]
6. [en]
1. To add fuel to (a fire ).
2. * [scene=v]
3. * [en]
4. To correct or put right (an error , a fault , etc.); to rectify , to remedy .
5. * [act=III]
6. * [volume=I]
7. * [author=Steele]
8. * [volume=I]
9. * [scene=i]
10. * [en]
11. To put (something) in a better state ; to ameliorate , to improve, to reform, to set right .
12. * [chapter=Epistle 2]
13. * [book=2]
14. * [title=Philosophical History]
15. * [edition=11th]
16. * [chapter=Preface]
17. * [chapter=Of Sea-sand]
18. * [author=Addison]
19. * [poem=Hope]
20. * [stanza=XI]
21. * [volume=II]
22. * [volume=II]
23. * [stanza=10]
24. * [volume=I]
25. * [volume=II]
26. * [part=III]
27. To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character ); to improve morally , to reform .
28. * [version=Q2]
29. * [act=III]
30. * [part=2]
31. * [volume=II]
32. * [page=54]
33. * [chapter=The Sacrifice]
34. * [year=1911]
35. _In_ MEND ONE'S PACE : to adjust (a pace or speed ), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
36. * [version=Q2]
37. * [en]
38. * [en]
39. [en] To correct or put right the defects , errors, or faults of (something); to amend , to emend , to fix .
40. * [book=2]
41. * [chapter=Of Marle]
42. [en] To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better , to improve on ; also, to produce something better than (something else).
43. * [act=V]
44. * [act=I]
45. * [chapter=The Plays]
46. [en] To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done ); to atone .
47. * [chapter=XI]
48. * [act=III]
49. [en] To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure , to heal .
50. * [book=3]
51. * [letter=XXVII]
52. * [version=Last]
53. * [part=I & II]
54. * [chapter=Sundry Doings at Fosse]
7. [en]
1. To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically [en] , a sail ).
2. * [act=III]
3. * [act=V]
4. * [chapter=Induction]
5. * [scene=ii]
6. * [volume=II]
7. To put out (a candle ).
8. [en] To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages ); to supplement ; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
9. * [act=IV]
10. * [act=II]
11. * [book=4]
12. * [letter=XXXII]
13. [en] To relieve ( distress ); to alleviate , to ease .
14. [en] To reform (oneself).
15. * [act=I]
16. [en] To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
17. * [chapter=Of Innouations. XXIIII.]
18. * [pages=67–68]
19. * [page=96]
20. * [page=40]
21. [en] To repair the clothes of (someone).
22. * [chapter=A Short One—Showing among Other Matters, How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive, and Mr. Winkle to Ride; and How They Both Did It]
23. * [year=1879]
24. [en] To cause (a person or animal ) to gain weight ; to fatten .
25. [en] _Chiefly with the [impersonal] [pronoun]_ IT : to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage , to profit .
2. [en]
1. [en]
1. Of an illness: to become less severe ; also, of an injury or wound , or an injured body part : to get better , to heal.
2. * [act=V]
3. * [pages=241–242]
4. Of a person : to become healthy again; to recover from illness .
5. * [letter=XV]
6. * [chapter=5]
7. * [chapter=The First Blast]
8. [en] _Now only in_ LEAST SAID, SOONEST MENDED : to make amends or reparation.
9. * [chapter=V]
10. * [volume=III]
11. [en] To become morally improved or reformed .
12. * [act=II]
13. * [version=1]
14. * [edition=2nd]
15. * [chapter=Farewell, Mackrimmon!]
16. * [page=195]
2. [en]
1. _Chiefly used together with_ MAKE : to make repairs .
2. * [en]
3. * [volume=II]
4. * [chapter=With the Middle Class]
5. [en] To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty ; to improve.
6. * [chapter=IX]
7. * [act=I]
8. * [version=1]
9. * [chapter=From Rome to Naples]
10. * [letter=XXII]
11. * [author=Addison]
12. * [volume=II]
13. * [version=London]
14. [en] To improve in amount or price .
15. [en] Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
16. * [author=Pope]
17. [en] _Followed by_ OF : to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of .
18. [en] Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
19. [en] To advantage, to avail , to help .
***** Usage notes
In some areas, _mend_ may be more rarely used or seen as more old-fashioned
than [en] or [en], or it may be more commonly used for repairing textiles than
for other items.
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |bellows to mend |hell mend someone |it's never too late to mend
|least said, soonest mended |mendable |make do and mend |mender |mendery |mend
fences |mend one's pace |mend one's ways |mismend |on the mending hand |remend
}}
***** Translations
[to physically repair (something that is damaged)]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] [informal] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] [disused] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to repair (a tear in clothing)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [disused] , [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [es] [colloquial]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to add fuel to (a fire)]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
[trans-bottom]
[to correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[to put (something) in a better state] [(_transitive_ ) to remove fault or sin
from (someone, or their behaviour or character); ( _intransitive_ ) to become
morally improved or reformed]
[to adjust (a pace or speed)]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
[trans-bottom]
[to quicken or speed up (a pace)] [to correct or put right the defects,
errors, or faults of (something)] [to increase the quality of (someone or
something)]
[to produce something better than (something else)]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
[trans-bottom]
[(_transitive_ ) to make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); (
_intransitive_ ) to make amends or reparation] [to restore (someone or
something) to a healthy state] [of an illness: to become less severe; of an
injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal] [of a
person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness]
[checktrans-top]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] , [nrf] [Jersey]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
Partly:[4]
- (chiefly [en] (“recompense; restoration or reparation”)) from [en] , [enm] , [5] the [aphetic] form of [enm] , [enm] [6] (though attested slightly earlier); or directly from its [etymon] [en] , [en] , and [en] (modern [fr] ), from [fro] (see etymology 1 ); and
- from _mend_ (verb).
**** Noun
[~]
1. [Senses relating to improvement or repairing .]
1. [en] An act of repairing.
2. [en] A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing ) which has been repaired.
3. [en] _Chiefly in_ ON THE MEND : improvement in health ; recovery from illness .
4. * [chapter=The Jessie]
2. [en] [en] Recompense ; restoration or reparation , especially [en] from sin .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[act of repairing]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [cloth] , [ru] , [ru] [cloth]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[place in a thing which has been repaired]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [rare] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[improvement in health; recovery from illness]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=mē̆nden]
[2]. [entry=amē̆nden]
[3]. [pos=v] ; [pos=v]
[4]. [pos=n] ; [pos=n]
[5]. [entry=mē̆nd(e]
[6]. [entry=amē̆nde(s]
[7]. [mend]
*** Further reading
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:OneLook]
[en]
** Albanian
*** Alternative forms
- [sq]
*** Etymology
From Proto-Indo European [ine-pro]. Alternatively, though less likely, Orel
claims a borrowing from [sq].[7]
*** Pronunciation
- [sq]
- [sq]
*** Noun
[f-p]
1. mind
**** Declension
[sq]
**** Derived terms
- [sq]
- [sq]
- [sq]
*** References
[reflist]
*** Further reading
- [R:sq:FGJSSH:1980]
- [R:sq:Newmark:1999]
- [R:sq:FGJSH:2006]
** Old Irish
*** Etymology
From [sga]. Cognate to [cy].
*** Pronunciation
- [sga-IPA]
*** Noun
[m]
1. young goat , kid
2. * [JD]
3. *: [sga]
**** Inflection
[mind]
**** Descendants
- [mga]
- [gd]
*** Mutation
[sga-mutation]
*** Further reading
- [31961]
** Polish
*** Pronunciation
[pl-pr]
*** Noun
[pl]
1. [pl]
** Yola
*** Etymology
From [yol].
*** Pronunciation
- [yol]
*** Verb
[yol]
1. to manure
*** References
- [page=159]