Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An operation in which data is transmitted. · An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message. · Alternative form of scend. · A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone). · To get one going; move to excitement or rapture; to delight or thrill. · To amuse greatly or otherwise stun by absurdity. · To bring to a certain condition, to drive.
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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- Root classification mention*sent- (go)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsendenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsendanang · to send, cause to go
- Inherited-form mention*sandijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sandijanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionseendestq · to send
- Cognate mentionzendennl · to send
- Cognate mentionsendende · to send
- Cognate mentionsändasv · to send
- Cognate mentionsandang
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