Etymology

poind

P3O1I1N1D2

Today it means: A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized Full definition →

Middle Scots poynd ← Middle English pynden ← Old English *pyndan
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*pundijan
  2. Old English · derived from*pyndan
  3. Middle English · derived frompynden
  4. Middle Scots · borrowed frompoynd
  5. English todaypoind

Borrowed from Middle Scots poynd, puynd, from Middle English pynden, from Old English *pyndan (and derived ġepyndan), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan. Doublet of pind.

Words from the same roots

Old English*pyndan all →

pinderpind

Proto-West Germanic*pundijan all →

pind

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.