The story
- Latin · derived fromēmendō“free from faults”
- Old French · derived fromamender
- Middle English · inherited fromamenden
- English todayamend
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchamender all →
mend
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.