Sendan

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Old English verb meaning to dispatch, transmit or cause something to travel to a particular destination
2. An archaic verb for conveying or dispatching a person, message or object to some place
3. Dispatch or transmit something toward a place, a verb used in early English for conveying a thing onward

Etymology: Old English "sendan" meant "to send," and it is one of the verbs that gave English its modern word "send" through a plain sound change rather than any dramatic shift. Its ancestry is Germanic: it belongs to a family that includes Old Norse "senda" and Old High German "senten," all pointing back to a reconstructed Proto-Germanic verb. Beyond that, the family's deeper roots are uncertain, and the older sources do not agree on them, so nothing firm can be said about a Proto-Indo-European ancestor. The Old English form itself was a weak verb with a past tense "sende" and past participle "gesended," and the modern form "send" comes from the loss of the final -an ending and the regular shortening of the vowel. The sense of dispatching someone or something to a destination has been stable since the earliest Old English texts, so the word's history is largely one of spelling and grammar rather than meaning.