English
redound
Redound comes from Latin redundō ‘to overflow, abound, redound’, from undō ‘surge’, and ultimately from unda ‘a wave’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEunda‘a wave’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEundō‘surge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEredundō‘to overflow, abound, redound’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400redunder
- Englishearliest quotation 1596redound
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEunda‘a wave’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEundō‘surge’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEredundō‘to overflow, abound, redound’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400redunder
- Englishearliest quotation 1596redound
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book IV, Canto X: “For every dram of hony therein found / A…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’
water, wet, wash, vodka, hydro, otter, hydrate, vitriol, hydride, aldehyde, vitreous, vedra, 43 more
through Latin unda ‘a wave’
through Latin undō ‘surge’
abundance, abundant, surround, undated, inundation, inundate, 2 more
through Latin redundō ‘to overflow, abound, redound’
Today it means
verb To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin unda / redound