Etymograph

English

bund

Bund comes from German Bund ‘alliance, league’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- ‘to bind’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰendʰ-‘to bind’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350bunt
  3. Germanc. 1650–presentBund‘alliance, league’
  4. Englishtodaybund

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰendʰ-‘to bind’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350bunt
  3. Germanc. 1650–presentBund‘alliance, league’
  4. Englishtodaybund

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- ‘to bind’

band, bond, banner, bend, bind, bonnet, tulip, funicular, 23 more

Another origin of bund

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰendʰ-‘to bind’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*bʰandʰásreconstructed
  3. Proto-Iranianprehistoric (reconstructed)*bandáhreconstructed
  4. Old Persianc. 600–300 BCE*bandahreconstructed
  5. Classical Persianc. 900–presentبندband
  6. Englishtodaybund

Another origin of bund

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰendʰ-‘to bind, tie’reconstructed
  2. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEबन्ध‘a binding, fetter, tie, bond’
  3. Hindic. 1500–presentबंधbandh‘closing, tying, fastening’
  4. Englishtodaybund

Today it means

noun A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- / bund

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