Wend
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Traditionally, the English term Wend referred to any West [Slav]s who lived as a minority in German-majority areas.
Nowadays the term is used to refer to the Sorbs, who are a West Slavic people that inhabit parts of the German states of Brandenburg and Saxony. The term is not nowadays used to refer to Poles, Czechs or Slovaks who have migrated to Germany, nor to their descendants. -
A word blend, a colloquial term for a portmanteau. The word wend is itself a wend using word and blend.
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A wend is the average weekend (Saturday and Sunday). It is abbreviated slang for weekend and is mainly used in chatrooms or instant messaging for convenience and speed.
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Weekend, stretching from 5pm Friday until 8am Monday.
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