The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)pend-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)péndeti
- Proto-Italic*pendō
- Latinpendō
- Latinexpendō
- Proto-West Germanic*spendōn
- Old Englishspendan
- Middle Englishspenden
- English todayspend
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.