offerandn.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman offerende, offerande and Old French offrende, offrande gift offered to God (early 12th cent.), antiphon preceding an offering of bread and wine (c1200), ceremony practised at certain masses, where the paten is presented to receive kisses and donations from the faithful (c1260) < post-classical Latin offerenda offerings (5th cent.), things offered to God, offertory antiphon (6th cent.), offertory of the mass (9th cent.), parish revenue from gifts (10th cent.), oblation (12th cent.), use as noun of neuter plural of gerundive of offerre offer v.; compare -and suffix².In forms in -and probably by association with offerand , Older Scots and northern English form of offering , present participle of offer offer v. The word becomes less common in more southerly texts after the early 15th cent.; compare offering n. The post-classical Latin etymon was earlier borrowed into Old English as offerenda, in sense ‘offertory antiphon’; compare:OE Regularis Concordia (Corpus Cambr.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 5 Oþ þæt man æfter þam godspelle þone offerendan singe and æfter þære offrunge þam sacerde þa selfan palmtwiga offrige.