An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/kund

by Friedrich Kluge

kund, adjective, ‘known, manifest,’ from Middle High German kunt(d), Old High German chund, adjective, ‘become acquainted, noted, known.’ It corresponds to Gothic kunþs, ‘noted,’ Old Saxon cûth, Anglo-Saxon cûþ, ‘noted,’ English couth (now only in the compound uncouth). A common Teutonic adjective in the form kunþa-, from the non-permutated gń-to-, which is properly a participle in to- from the verbal stem of the root gō̆n, gnô, discussed under können, kennen, and kühn. For other participles formed into adjectives see under laut.