English
vendor
Vendor comes from Anglo-Norman vendor, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’root as named · steps between not traced
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400vendor
- Englishearliest quotation 1847same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-‘to give’root as named · steps between not traced
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400vendor
- Englishearliest quotation 1847same form
Earliest quotation: 1847, Herman Melville, Queen Pomaree: “[…] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends…”
The story
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (‘seller’), from vendere (‘to sell, cry up for sale, praise’), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (‘to sell’), from venum (‘sale, price’) + dare (‘to give’).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘to give’
data, date, add, die, addition, tradition, delicious, rent, dose, treason, donate, donation, surrender, donor, render, dow, vent, additive, rendition, antidote, anecdote, rendezvous, dowry, condone, dowager, addendum, perdition, dative, dower, dacha, dati, sconce, endow, 39 more
Today it means
noun A person or a company that vends or sells.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / vendor