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Where does “hunder” come from?

hunder (Old Swedish) comes from Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ — dog.

hunder (Old Swedish): dog

Definitions

  1. dog

Ancestry of “hunder”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsehundra dog
2Proto-Germanichundazdog
3Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwn̥tós—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog

Words derived from “hunder”

  • hunttu
  • hund
  • vattenhund
  • hundskatt
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