The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*andawindaną“to unwind”
- Old English · inherited fromunwindan“to unwind; unwrap”
- Middle English · inherited fromunwinden
- English todayunwind
From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan (“to unwind; unwrap”), from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną (“to unwind”); equivalent to un- + wind (“to coil”). Cognate with Dutch ontwinden (“to unwind”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.