The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wundrą“wonder”
- Old English · inherited fromwundres“of wonder”
- Middle English · derived fromwonders“wondrous, wonderful”
- Middle English · inherited fromwondrous
- English todaywondrous
From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (“wondrous, wonderful”, adjective), from Old English wundres (“of wonder”), genitive singular of wundor (“wonder, miracle”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą (“wonder”). Compare Dutch wonder, German Wunder.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*wundrą all →
wonder
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.