Etymology

-bound

Today it means: Moving or travelling towards. Full definition →

English bound ← Middle English bownde ← Old Norse búinn
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰuH-
  2. Proto-Germanic*būaną
  3. Old Norsebúinn
  4. Middle Englishbownde
  5. Englishbound
  6. English today-bound

From bound (“obliged to, certain to”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.