− | [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''comanden'', from Anglo-French ''cumander'', from Vulgar Latin ''commandare'', alteration of [[Latin]] ''commendare'' to [[commit]] to one's charge. The [[English]] word does not certainly appear before 16th cent., so that it may have been formed here on the verb: [[compare]] demand , order , call , and the [[modern]] ''invite''. | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''comanden'', from Anglo-French ''cumander'', from Vulgar Latin ''commandare'', alteration of [[Latin]] ''commendare'' to [[commit]] to one's charge. The [[English]] word does not certainly appear before 16th cent., so that it may have been formed here on the verb: [[compare]] demand , order , call , and the [[modern]] ''invite''. |