weasand

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*weys-“to flow, run”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*waisund
3. Old English · inherited from*wǣsend
4. Middle English · inherited fromwesand
5. English todayweasand

Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”).

Words from the same roots