Etymology

send

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Today it means: To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone). Full definition →

Middle English senden ← Old English sendan ← Proto-West Germanic *sandijan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*sont-eye-ti“to cause to go”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sandijaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sandijan
  4. Old English · inherited fromsendan“to send, cause to go”
  5. Middle English · inherited fromsenden
  6. English todaysend

From Middle English senden, from Old English sendan (“to send, cause to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *sandijan, from Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sont-eye-ti (“to cause to go”), causative of *sent- (“to walk, travel”). The noun derives from the verb. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian seende (“to send”), Dutch zenden (“to send”), German senden (“to send”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sende (“to send”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk senda (“to send”), Swedish sända (“to send”). Related also to Old English sand, sond (“a sending, mission, message”). See also sith.

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