Etymograph

English

insend

Insend comes from Old English insendan ‘to send in, put in’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *sinþaną.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sinþaną1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sandijaną2‘to send’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sandijan2‘to send’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sendan3‘to send’
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150insendan4‘to send in, put in’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500insenden4
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1807insend4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, which cites Kroonen
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Old English sendan
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Old English insendan
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English insend
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1807, Samuel Henshall: “Not any man soothly insends, setteth, (doeth) cloth of…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sinþanąWiktionary, Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, which cites Kroonenreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sandijanąWiktionary, Old English sendan‘to send’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sandijanWiktionary, Old English sendan‘to send’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150sendanWiktionary, Old English insendan‘to send’
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150insendanWiktionary, English insend‘to send in, put in’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500insendenWiktionary, English insend
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1807insendWiktionary, English insend. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1807, Samuel Henshall: “Not any man soothly insends, setteth, (doeth) cloth of…”

Formed from in- + send

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to walk’

…

Proto-Germanic *sandijaną ‘to send’

Proto-West Germanic *sandijan ‘to send’

Old English sendan ‘to send’

Middle English senden ‘to send’

English send

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *sinþaną

Today it means

verb To send in.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “insend”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, Old English sendan, Old English insendan. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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