Where does “expender” come from?
expender (English) comes from English expend, from Latin expendō, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- — to stretch.
expender (English): One who expends
Definitions
- One who expends
Ancestry of “expender”, step by step
expender traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English expend
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | expend | to consume, exhaust; to spend, disburse |
| 2 | Latin | expendō | to weigh |
| 3 | Latin | pendō | to weigh, weigh out |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |