export

Export comes from Latin exportare, a combination of ex- ("out") and portare ("to carry"). The word simply meant to carry something out or away.

The facts don't give a documented shift in meaning beyond this Latin root, so the honest story is that 'carrying out' has stayed close to the modern sense of sending goods abroad.

The portare root ties export to other English words built on carrying, like 'transport' and 'portable,' though the facts here only confirm the exportare source itself.