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Extend comes from Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, from Latin extendō ‘to stretch out’, from tendō ‘to stretch’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*téndeti¹reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tendō¹‘to stretch’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtendō¹‘to stretch’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextendō²‘to stretch out’
5. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400extendre²
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500extenden²‘to extend’
7. Englishearliest quotation 1894extend²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin extendo
2. ² Wiktionary, English extend
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1894, Fred Grundy, Management of Fall Pigs: “The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in…”.