surroundsurround

Surround comes from Middle English sourrounden ‘to submerge, overflow’, from Latin undō ‘to rise in waves’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wed-¹‘water’root named by Wiktionary
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*udn-om²‘body of water’uncertain
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEunda¹‘wave’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEundō¹‘to rise in waves’
5. Late Latinmodernsuperundō¹
6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600souronder¹
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sourrounden¹‘to submerge, overflow’
8. Englishearliest quotation 1650surround¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English surround
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin unda
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1650, Thomas Fuller, The Description of the Tribe of Benjamin: “Unfitting it vvas, that the body of that vvorthy…”.