apuñar (Spanish) comes from Spanish puño, from Old Portuguese punno, from Latin pūgnus, from Proto-Italic pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European puǵnos, from Proto-Indo-European pewǵ- — to punch, fist-fight; to prick, poke, stab.
apuñar (Spanish): to grip (something) with a fist
Definitions
to grip (something) with a fist
Ancestry of “apuñar”, step by step
apuñar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.