Where does “deerhound” come from?

deerhound (English) comes from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic hund, from Proto-Germanic hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ — dog.

deerhound (English): a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally...

Definitions

  1. a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally...

Ancestry of “deerhound”, step by step

deerhound traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English hund

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishhunddog; hundred
2Proto-West Germanichunddog
3Proto-Germanichundazdog
4Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwn̥tós—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog

via Old English crāwe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishcrāwecrow
2Proto-West Germanickrāācrow
3Proto-Germanickrēǭcrow
4Proto-Indo-Europeanger-to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós →Every word from Proto-Germanic hundaz →
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