a. and sb. Also 7, 9 Windish, 9 Vendish, Vindish. [f. WEND sb. + -ISH, or ad. G. Wendisch, Windisch.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Wends.

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1614.  [see VOIVODE. β].

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1788.  Engl. Rev., Dec., 479. The people … are called in Saxony Wenden, i. e. Wendts, or Vandals, or Wendish.

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1790.  Dornford, Patter’s Develop. Germ. Emp., III. Index, Wendish or Venedic countries.

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1822.  Downes, Lett. fr. Mecklenburg, 157. Pribislaus, a Wendish chief.

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1822.  Encycl. Brit., Suppl. V. 242. The Wendish dialect of the Sclavonian.

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1892.  H. M. Doughty, Wherry in Wendish Lands, 113. Country places are still known by their Wendish names.

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  B.  sb. The language of the Wends, esp. the Sorabian tongue spoken in Saxony.

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1617.  Moryson, Itin., I. 68. In the villages of Carinthia … the Countrey people speake Wendish, or the tongue of the old Vandals.

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1788.  Engl. Rev., Dec., 480. Every Saturday one of them preaches, in Wendish, a sermon in the university church.

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1822.  Encycl. Brit., Suppl. V. 243. A language consisting of a mixture of Wendish and German.

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1887.  Morfill, in Encycl. Brit., XXII. 150/1. The Slovenes are sometimes called ‘Wends’ and their language ‘Windish’ or ‘Wendish.’

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1915.  Caroline F. M. Zanardi Landi, in 19th Century, Nov., 1045. Carniola, where Vendish, a Slav dialect, is spoken.

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