The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*dwīnaną
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*dwīnan
- Old English · derived fromdwīnan“to waste away”
- Middle English · derived fromdwynen
- English todaydwindle
Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwynen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to Old Norse dvena, dvína, Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishdwynen all →
dwine
Old Englishdwīnan all →
dwine
Proto-West Germanic*dwīnan all →
dwine
Proto-Germanic*dwīnaną all →
dwine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.