Where does “Waunt” come from?

Waunt (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German want, from Old Saxon wand, from Proto-West Germanic *wandu, from Proto-Germanic wanduz, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.

Waunt (Plautdietsch): wall

Definitions

  1. wall

Ancestry of “Waunt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanwant—
2Old Saxonwandmole, vole
3Proto-West Germanic*wandu—
4Proto-Germanicwanduzmole; vole; rod, switch, stick
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn

Words derived from “Waunt”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- →