Where does “pynting” come from?
pynting (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic pynta, from Icelandic pynda, from Old Norse pynda, from Old English pyndan, from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan.
pynting (Icelandic): torture, torment
Ancestry of “pynting”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | pynta | to torture |
| 2 | Icelandic | pynda | to torture |
| 3 | Old Norse | pynda | — |
| 4 | Old English | pyndan | to enclose, shut up, dam, impound; pen up |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *pundijan | — |