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🌍 Of the Wends 🧑 A Wend 🗣️ A Slavic language
Wendish

Wendish

9.9
A person from the Wends, a Slavic people in Central Europe
  • noun
: wendio
  • I present Sir Ulrich, whose mother's father was Shilhard von Rechberg... ...son of the Duke Guelph of Saxony, son of Ghibellines, son of Wendish.

Examples

  • The Wendish people have a rich cultural history in Central Europe.

  • As a Wendish community, they celebrate their traditions every year in the summer festival.

  • Many Wendish descendants are proud of their heritage and work to preserve their language.

Surface Forms

Wendish singular
Wendishes plural

Morphology

Wendish = Wend (transparent) = wend + ish

The noun use ('a Wendish') is the common nominal use of an -ish adjective to denote a person or people associated with the base ethnonym.

Etymology

Wendish comes from the old name Wends, used for a Slavic people in Central Europe, so a Wendish is a member of that group.