An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wund

by Friedrich Kluge

wund, adjective, ‘galled, chased, wounded,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wunt (d), Old High German wunt; corresponding to Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon wund, Dutch gewond, and Gothic wunds; properly an old participle with the Aryan suffix to-. There is also an old abstract of the same root with the Aryan suffix -tâ (see Schande?), Modern High German Wunde, ‘wound,’ from Middle High German wunde, Old High German wunta, feminine, to which Old Saxon wunda, Dutch wunde, Anglo-Saxon wund, English wound, correspond. The root on which the word is based would assume the form wen in Teutonic; compare Gothic win-nan, ‘to suffer, feel pain,’ to which Greek ὠτειλή (from *ό-ϝατειλη), ‘wound,’ is usually referred.