Where does “attend” come from?

attend (French) comes from French attendre, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

attend (French): third-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “attend”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchattendreto wait for, to await; to expect; Alternative...
2Old Frenchatendreto wait
3Latinattendōto pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-