Word Origin Summary

Vinda is attested in Old Norse. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *windanąProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• guindastre

  Galician · derived from

• gînder

  Norman · borrowed from

• guinder

  French · derived from

• vinda

  Swedish · derived from

• vinde

  Norwegian Nynorsk · inherited from

• guindar

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• agghindare

  Italian · derived from

• vinda

  Swedish · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root