Etymograph

English

onsend

Onsend comes from Old English onsendan ‘to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up,…’, 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. 450–1150onsendan4‘to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500onsenden4
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2001onsend4

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 onsendan
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English onsend
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2001, Julia Rosalyn Baird: “Through machines' capacity to store and forward, the packet…”.

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 onsendan‘to send’
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150onsendanWiktionary, English onsend‘to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500onsendenWiktionary, English onsend
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2001onsendWiktionary, English onsend. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2001, Julia Rosalyn Baird: “Through machines' capacity to store and forward, the packet…”

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *sinþaną

Today it means

verb To send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “onsend”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Germanic *sandijaną, Old English sendan, Old English onsendan. 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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