An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Hinde

by Friedrich Kluge

Hinde, with an affixed feminine termination, also Hindin, feminine, ‘hind, doe,’ from Middle High German and Middle Low German hinde, Old High German hinta, feminine, ‘hind’; compare Anglo-Saxon hind, feminine, English hind, Old Icelandic hind, ‘hind’; the common Teutonic feminine of Hirsch; Gothic *hindi (genitive *hindjôs), feminine, is wanting. It is generally connected with Gothic hinþan, ‘to catch’ (to which English to hunt is allied). Others relate it to Greek κεμ-άς, feminine, ‘young deer, pricket’; in that case the dental is a suffix, as in hun-d (allied to Greek κυν-; see Hund), and n before a dental may originate in m (compare Sund, Schande, and hundert).