Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗Healthy. · Complete, solid, or secure. · Having the property of soundness. · Good; acceptable; decent.
From Middle English sound, sund, isund, ȝesund, from Old English sund (“sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundaz (“healthy”), merged with synonymous Old English ġesund, from Proto-West Germanic *gasund. Cognate with Scots sound, soun (“healthy, sound”), Saterland Frisian suund, gesuund (“healthy”), West Frisian sûn (“healthy”), Dutch gezond (“healthy, sound”), Low German sund, gesund (“healthy”), German gesund (“healthy, sound”), Danish sund (“healthy”), Swedish sund (“sound, healthy”). Possibly related also to Dutch gezwind (“fast, quick”), German geschwind (“fast, quick”), Old English swīþ (“strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent”). See swith.
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- Inherited-form mentionsoundenm
- Inherited-form mentionsundang · sound, safe, whole, uninjured, healthy, prosperous
- Inherited-form mention*sundgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sundazgem-pro · healthy
- Inherited-form mentionġesundang
- Inherited-form mention*gasundgmw-pro
- Cognate mentionsoundsco
- Cognate mentionsuundstq
- Cognate mentionsûnfy · healthy
- Cognate mentiongezondnl · healthy, sound
- Cognate mentionsundnds
- Cognate mentiongesundde · healthy, sound
- Cognate mentionsundda · healthy
- Cognate mentionsundsv · sound, healthy
- Cognate mentiongezwindnl · fast, quick
- Cognate mentiongeschwindde · fast, quick
- Cognate mentionswīþang · strong, mighty, powerful, active, severe, violent
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