Word Origin Summary

Prendre is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. prēndereLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• prendre

  Middle French · inherited from

• prendre

  Norman · inherited from

• prend

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

• pran

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• prende

  Plateau Haitian Creole · inherited from

• pran

  Plateau Haitian Creole · inherited from

• prende

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

• prenre

  Norman · inherited from

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