The story
- Middle English · derived fromdefenden
- Old French · derived fromdefendëor
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromdefendour
- Middle English · inherited fromdefender
- English todaydefender
From Middle English defender, deffender, defendere, defendour, defendoure, partly from Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendëor; partly from Middle English defenden + -ere, equivalent to defend + -er.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishdefenden all →
defend
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.