## Meanings
1. To ask someone if they would like something, or to hold it out for them.
2. To say that you are willing to do something.
3. To provide or make something available.
4. Something that you say you are willing to give or do for someone.
5. An amount of money that someone is willing to pay.

## Examples
- She offered me a cup of tea when I arrived.
- He kindly offered to drive us to the airport.
- The hotel offers free breakfast to all guests.
- Thank you for your kind offer of help.
- They made an offer of $200,000 for the house.

## Derived Forms
- counteroffer
- offerable
- offeree
- offerer
- offerless
- offeror
- postoffer
- reoffer
- throffer

## Related Forms
- oblate
- oblation
- offering
- offertory

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰer-
- Root: offren
- Root: offrian
- Root: ofrir
- Root: offerō
- Root: ob

## Etymology
From Middle English offren, offrien. In the religious senses inherited from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”); otherwise from Old French ofrir. Both ultimately from Latin offerō (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + ferō (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offrōn (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

## AI Etymology
Offer comes from Middle English offren, offrien. In the religious senses inherited from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”); otherwise from Old French ofrir. Both ultimately from Latin offerō (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + ferō (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offrōn (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). Modern senses include to ask someone if they would like something, or to hold it out for them and to say that you are willing to do something. The wider word family includes derivatives such as counteroffer, offerable, offeree, offerer, offerless, and offeror and related forms such as oblate, oblation, offering, and offertory.

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