Where does “amend” come from?
Amend comes from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin emendo meaning to correct or improve, derived from Latin ex meaning out.
amend (English): To make better; improve; To become better; To...
Definitions
- To make better; improve; To become better; To...
Ancestry of “amend”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 2 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 3 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 4 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |