Additional Information
Cf. Old English weak verbs byldan (build), gyldan (gild), bendan (bend), rendan (rend), sendan (send), scendan (shend),
spendan (spend), wendan (wend).
Etymology
1. O.E.
sendan "send, send forth, throw," from P.Gmc.
*sandijanan (cf. O.S.
sendian, O.N., O.Fris.
senda, M.L.G., M.Du.
senden, Goth.
sandjan), causative form of base
*sinþan, denoting "go, journey" (source of O.E.
sið "way, journey," O.N.
sinn, Goth.
sinþs "going, walk, time"), from PIE base
*sent- "to head for, go" (cf. Lith.
siusti "send;" see sense). Also used in O.E. of divine ordinance (cf.
godsend, from O.E.
sand "messenger, message," from P.Gmc.
*sandaz "that which is sent"). Slang sense of "to transport with emotion, delight" is recorded from 1932, in Amer.Eng. jazz slang.
Send-off "farewell" (especially a funeral) is from 1872.
2. 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.
3. Cognates
4. 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. See: Middle English '
senden', Old English '
sendan', Proto-Germanic '
*sandijaną', Frisian, Saterlandic 'seende', Dutch '
zenden', German, old spelling '
senden', Swedish '
sända'.
Verbs referencing "send"
Esperanto
sendi, Norwegian, nynorsk
senda, Sranan
seni, German, old spelling
senden, Danish
sende, Norwegian
sende.