Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. prendreFrenchinherited from
2. prēndereLatininherited from
3. prendoLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• 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

• prender

  English · borrowed from

• prendre

  French · inherited from

• prender

  Interlingua · derived from

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