Where does “hund” come from?

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

hund (Old Frisian): dog

Definitions

  1. dog

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 *hund

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*hund—

Words derived from “hund”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós →Every word from Proto-Germanic hundaz →