Etymograph

English

effund

Effund comes from Latin effundō ‘to pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-1‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰunédti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hundō1‘to pour out’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfundō1‘pour’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeffundō2‘to pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1642effund2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin effundo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English effund
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1642, Henry More: “If he his life effund To utmost death, the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-Wiktionary, Latin effundo‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰunédtiWiktionary, Latin effundoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hundōWiktionary, Latin effundo‘to pour out’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfundōWiktionary, Latin effundo‘pour’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeffundōWiktionary, English effund‘to pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1642effundWiktionary, English effund. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1642, Henry More: “If he his life effund To utmost death, the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’

yet, gut, refuse, font, fuse, effusive, 38 more

through Proto-Italic *hundō ‘to pour out’

confused, infusion, diffusion, foundry, perfusion, fondue, profusion, 34 more

through Latin fundō ‘pour’

foundation, founder, confusion, fundamental, fusion, confuse, funnel, refund, diffuse, infuse, confound, 44 more

through Latin effundō ‘to pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off’

effusion, 1 more

Today it means

verb To pour out.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “effund”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin effundo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- / effund

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