a. and sb. Also Windic. [f. WEND sb. + -IC. The form Windic is after G. Winde, var. of Wende WEND. Cf. Windish = WENDISH.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to the Wends. b. sb. The language of the Wends, Sorabian. (For a wider use see quot. 1861.)
1861. Max Müller, Lect. Sci. Lang., 186. The fifth branch, which is commonly called Slavonic, I prefer to designate by the name Windic. Ibid., page-heading, Windic class.
1868. Chamb. Encycl., X. 139. Those remnants of the Slavic population of Lusatia who still speak the Wendic tongue.
1883. Morfill, Slavonic Lit., ii. 36. The Wendic mountains … are mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy.
