## Etymology
From tend + -ing. Tend ('to care for') is an aphetic form of attend, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere ('to give heed to'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch').

## AI Etymology
Tending is from tend + -ing. Tend ('to care for') is an aphetic form of attend, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere ('to give heed to'), from ad- ('to') + tendere ('to stretch'). Important recorded forms include attendere (Latin) and tendere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense is largely compositional, with the historical elements narrowing into a stable English lexical item. In current use it covers the act of caring for or attending to someone or something. The wider family includes related words such as tend, tendance, and attend.

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