Where does “windan” come from?

windan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *windan, from Proto-Germanic windaną, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.

windan (Old English): to twist, wind, circle, curl, spiral, eddy

Definitions

  1. to twist, wind, circle, curl, spiral, eddy

Ancestry of “windan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*windan—
2Proto-Germanicwindanąto wind, to wrap
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn

Words derived from “windan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic windaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *windan →