offer

offer
\ \ [OE] Latin offerre was a compound verb formed from the prefix ob- ‘to’ and ferrebring, carry’ (a distant relative of English bear), and it meant ‘present, offer’. It was borrowed into Old English from Christian Latin texts as offrian, in the specific sense ‘offer up a sacrifice’; the more general spread of modern meanings was introduced via Old French offrir in the 14th century. The past participle of offerre was oblātus, from which English gets oblation [15].
\ \ Cf.BEAR, OBLATION

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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