gound

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʰendʰ-“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gundaz“sore, boil”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gund
4. Old English · inherited fromgund“matter, pus, poison”
5. Middle English · inherited fromgounde
6. English todaygound

From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *gund, from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰendʰ- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).