English
hidebound
From hide (“animal skin”, noun) + bound (“tied”, adjective).
A compound of hide ‘animal skin’ + bound ‘tied’
Proto-Germanic *huzdą ‘treasure, hoard’
Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną ‘to hoard’
Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan ‘to conceal’
Old English hȳdan ‘to hide’
Middle English hiden ‘to conceal’
English hide
Today it means
adj Bound with the hide of an animal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hidebound