Where does “hund” come from?

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

hund (Old English): dog; hundred

Definitions

  1. dog; hundred

Ancestry of “hund”, step by step

hund traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic hund

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanichunddog
2Proto-Germanichundazdog
3Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwn̥tós
4Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog

via Proto-Germanic hundą

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanichundąa great hundred; a hundred
2Proto-Indo-Europeanḱm̥tómhundred
3Proto-Indo-Europeandéḱm̥ten

Words derived from “hund

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ