An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/winden

by Friedrich Kluge

winden, verb, ‘to wind, reel, twine,’ from Middle High German winden, Old High German wintan, strong verb, ‘to wind, turn, wrap’; compare Old Saxon windan, ‘to turn’ (biwindan, ‘to wrap up’), Dutch winden, Anglo-Saxon windan, English to wind, Gothic windan. For the causative of this Teutonic strong verbal root wind, ‘to turn, wrap,’ see wenden; other derivatives are wandern, wandeln. There are no certain cognates in non-Teutonic Italian ghindare, French guinder, ‘to hoist,’ are borrowed from Teutonic.