The story
- Old English · inherited frombehōn“to hang round”
- Middle English · inherited from*behangen
- English todaybehang
From Middle English *behangen, behongen, bihangien, bihengen, from Old English behōn (“to hang round”), equivalent to be- + hang. Cognate with Dutch behangen (“to decorate”), German behängen (“to hang, drape, decorate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.