menden

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• Rhymes: -ɛndən

menden

1. inflection of mennen:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

• menend, nemend

menden

1. inflection of mendar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

A aphetic form of amenden (“to alter, change (especially for the better); to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure; to excel, surpass; to forgive; to get or make better, improve; to make ready; to mend, repair, restore; to get well, recover; to relieve”),^[1][2] or from its etymon Anglo-Norman amender and Old French amender (“to cure; to fix, repair; to set right, correct”) (modern French amender),^[3] from Latin ēmendāre, the present active infinitive of ēmendō (“to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mendum (“defect; error, fault”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“defect; fault”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).

menden

1. cure
2. do good to, benefit
3. do or make better, improve
4. get better, recover
5. keep in a good state
6. put right, amend
7. reform, repent

• English: mend

From Proto-Germanic *mandijaną.

menden

1. to rejoice, to cheer

• “menden”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

menden

1. reach a standstill
2. to wait, stay