The story
- Latin · derived fromremandare“to order”
- Late Latin · derived fromremandare“to send backward”
- Middle French · derived fromremander“to send back”
- Middle English · inherited fromremaunden“to send back”
- English todayremand
From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.