Where does “tendere” come from?

tendere (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from German tendieren, from Latin tendere, from Proto-Indo-European tend-, from Proto-Indo-European temh₂- — to stretch, string; to cut.

tendere (Norwegian Bokmål): to tend

Definitions

  1. to tend

Ancestry of “tendere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantendierento tend toward/towards
2Latintenderesecond-person singular future passive indicative...
3Proto-Indo-Europeantend-to stretch, to extend; to split, cut off
4Proto-Indo-Europeantemh₂-to stretch, string; to cut

Words derived from “tendere”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European temh₂- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tend- →Every word from Latin tendere →