forwound

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*frawundōn“to wound, injure”
2. Old English · inherited fromforwundian“to wound”
3. Middle English · inherited fromforwounden
4. English todayforwound

From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).