lendes (plural)
From from Old English lendenu (“loins”, plural) (in compound lenden-, lende-), from Proto-Germanic *landį̄, *landijō (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“kidney, waist, loin”). Cognate with Dutch lendenen (“loins”, plural), German Lende (“haunch, loin”), Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Icelandic lend (“loin”). More at loin.
