The story
- Old English · inherited fromforþsendan“to send forth”
- Middle English · inherited from*forthsenden
- English todayforthsend
From Middle English *forthsenden, from Old English forþsendan (“to send forth”), equivalent to forth- + send. Cognate with Dutch voortzenden (“to send forth”), German fortsenden (“to send forth, dispatch”).
Words from the same roots
Middle English*forthsenden all →
send forth
Old Englishforþsendan all →
send forth
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.