A colleague just told me that he'd wend his way back to his desk, and then we wondered what wending was. Is it similar to winding?
So of course I looked it up on Dictionary.com, which led me to
Online Etymology Dictionary.
This Online Etymology Dictionary tells me that wend comes to English from Proto-Germanic *wandijanan via Old English windan "to turn, twist".
So there we go - wend is indeed related to wind, and both have a long pedigree.
BTW, I now use iGoogle as my home page, and I've added in the Dictionary.com gadget, so I can Look Words Up very easily. Wheeee!
Back to work.
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