Where does “amender” come from?
amender (English) comes from English amend, from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
amender (English): One who amends
Ancestry of “amender”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | amend | To make better; improve; To become better; To... |
| 2 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 3 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 4 | Latin | ēmendō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | — |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |