| 1 | Middle English | redemen | To redeem or liberate; To pay compensation to... |
| 2 | Old French | redimer | — |
| 3 | Latin | redimo | I buy back, repurchase, redeem; I atone for; I... |
| 4 | Latin | red- | Primarily ante-vocalic or poetic variant of re- |
| 5 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |