A thing handed over for consideration. Also the act of yielding — the same word for offering and for giving way.
Latin submittere (to put under, to yield), from sub (under) + mittere (to send); the same word served an offering handed up and a will given over, and the sense split without ever fully separating.
A thing handed over for consideration, and the act of yielding. The same word for offering and for giving way, and only who is doing the sending tells which.