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Where does “tenden” come from?

tenden (Middle English) comes from Middle English attenden, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

Ancestry of “tenden”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishattendento attend
2Old Frenchatendreto wait
3Latinattendō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “tenden”

  • tend
  • tending
  • tind
  • tendeth
  • goaltending
  • tendest
  • goaltend
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