Where does “mend” come from?
Mend comes from Middle English menden, from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin emendāre, meaning to free from faults or correct.
mend (English): A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired...
Definitions
- A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired...
Ancestry of “mend”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | menden | cure |
| 2 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 3 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 4 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 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 | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |