Etymograph

English

add

Add comes from Middle English adden ‘to join or unite’, from Latin addō, from PIE *deh₃- ‘to give’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaddō‘add’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500adden‘to join or unite’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1611add

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaddō‘add’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500adden‘to join or unite’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1611add

Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “The Lord shall add to me another son.”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’

data, date, die, rent, delicious, tradition, dose, surrender, donate, donation, donor, treason, vent, vendor, render, dow, rendition, rendezvous, antidote, anecdote, condone, dowry, dowager, perdition, dative, endow, dower, dacha, dati, sconce, 39 more

through Latin addō ‘add, give unto’

addition, additive, addendum, 3 more

Today it means

verb To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / add

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