The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
sent-
DEFINITION:
To head for, go. 1.widdershins, from Old High German sin(d), direction, from Germanic form *sinthaz.2. Suffixed (causative) o-grade form *sont-eyo-.send1, from Old English sendan, to send, from Germanic *sandjan, to cause to go. 3. Suffixed o-grade form *sont-o-.godsend, from Old English sand, message, messenger, from Germanic *sandaz, that which is sent. 4. Perhaps suffixed form *sent-yo-.scent, sense, sensillium, sentence, sentient, sentiment, sentinel; assent, consent, dissent, presentiment, resent, from Latin sentre, to feel (< “to go mentally”). (Pokorny sent- 908.)
re, to feel (< “to go mentally”). (Pokorny sent- 908.) 
