The story
- Old English · inherited frominbringan“to bring in, bring to, present”
- Middle English · inherited frominbringen
- English todayinbring
From Middle English inbringen, from Old English inbringan (“to bring in, bring to, present”), equivalent to in- + bring. Cognate with Scots inbring (“to inbring, import”), Dutch inbrengen (“to bring in”), German einbringen (“to introduce, bring in”), Swedish inbringa (“to bring in, fetch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.