Where does “spenden” come from?
spenden (Middle English) comes from Old English spendan, from Proto-West Germanic spendōn, from Latin expendō, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- — to stretch.
Ancestry of “spenden”, step by step
Words derived from “spenden”