Etymograph

English

embondage

From em- + bondage.

Formed from en- + bondage

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to be, grow’

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Old English bonda ‘householder, husband, head of a family’

Middle English bond ‘tenant farmer, serf’

Medieval Latin bondagium ‘an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman’

Middle English bondage ‘serfdom’

English bondage

Today it means

verb To bring into bondage; to enslave.

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

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