Etymograph

English

onde

Onde comes from Middle English onde ‘Enmity, hostility, malice’, from Proto-West Germanic *anadō ‘spirit’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe, blow’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enh₁-1‘to breathe, blow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*anadô1‘breath, spirit, zeal’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*anadō1‘spirit’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150onda1‘zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500onde1‘Enmity, hostility, malice’
  6. Englishtodayonde1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English onde

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enh₁-Wiktionary, English onde‘to breathe, blow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*anadôWiktionary, English onde‘breath, spirit, zeal’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*anadōWiktionary, English onde‘spirit’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150ondaWiktionary, English onde‘zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ondeWiktionary, English onde‘Enmity, hostility, malice’
  6. EnglishtodayondeWiktionary, English onde

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe, blow’

animal, anime, asthma, unanimous, inhale, animosity, animate, animator, anima, animus, prana, anemone, exhalation, 18 more

through Proto-Germanic *anadô ‘breath, spirit, zeal’

and, 2 more

Today it means

noun envy; hatred; malice

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “onde”. 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 *h₂enh₁- / onde

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