send: [OE] English shares send with the other Germanic languages – German senden, Dutch zenden, Swedish s?nda, and Danish sende. These all go back to a prehistoric ancestor *santhjan, which originated as a causative derivative of a base denoting ‘go, journey’ – so etymologically send means ‘cause to go’.
send (v.)
Old English sendan "send, send forth; throw, impel," from Proto-Germanic *sandijan (cognates: Old Saxon sendian, Old Norse and Old Frisian senda, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch senden, Dutch zenden, German senden, Gothic sandjan), causative form of base *sintan, denoting "go, journey" (source of Old English sie "way, journey," Old Norse sinn, Gothic sints "going, walk, time"), from PIE root *sent- "to head for, go" (cognates: Lithuanian siusti "send;" see sense (n.)).
Also used in Old English of divine ordinance (as in godsend, from Old English sand "messenger, message," from Proto-Germanic *sandaz "that which is sent"). Slang sense of "to transport with emotion, delight" is recorded from 1932, in American English jazz slang.
例文
1. 「I want to send a telegram.」-"Fine，to whom？"
「電報を送りたい。」-「はい、誰に送りますか？」
2.For more details about these products， send a postcard marked HB/MF.
これらの製品の詳細については、HB/FFと表記されたはがきをお送りください。
3.Come on，Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.
さあ、ビル。トムにカードを送って喜ばせましょう。
4.The crew did not send out any distress signals.
乗組員は救助信号を出していない。
5.Exceptionally，in times of emergency，we may send a team of experts.