Where does “atend” come from?
atend (English) comes from Middle English attenden, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
atend (English): To set on fire; kindle; To take or catch fire
Definitions
- To set on fire; kindle; To take or catch fire
Ancestry of “atend”, step by step
atend traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English attenden
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | attenden | to attend |
| 2 | Old French | atendre | to wait |
| 3 | Latin | attendō | to pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle English atenden
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | atenden | To set (something) on fire; to kindle |
| 2 | Old English | ātendan | to set on fire, kindle, inflame, trouble, perplex |
| 3 | Old English | tendan | to kindle |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | tandijaną | to kindle, to light on fire |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | tinnaną | to burn |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dendʰneti | — |