Hound
/haʊnd/noun
A dog, especially one used for hunting.
Did you know?Hound is an old Germanic word with deep roots in hunting culture, and its close relatives spread through several branches of Indo-European languages, showing how ancient people encoded survival, pursuit, and command into everyday speech.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ḱun-
“dog”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*hundaz
“dog”
Old English
OE
hund
“dog, hound”
Middle English
ME
hound
“dog, especially a hunting dog”
Modern English
English
hound
“a dog, especially one used for hunting”
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