An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/senden

by Friedrich Kluge

senden, verb, ‘to send, dispatch,’ from the equivalent Middle High German sęnden, Old High German sęnten; a common Teutonic verb; compare Gothic sandjan, Anglo-Saxon sęndan, English to send, Dutch zenden, Old Saxon sęndian, Old Icelandic senda, ‘to send.’ Factitive of a lost Old Teutonic *sinþan, ‘to go, travel’; thus senden is literally ‘to cause to go.’ Compare Gesinde and sinnen.