An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Hinde

by Friedrich Kluge

Hinde, with an affixed fem. termination, also Hindin, f., ‘hind, doe,’ from MidHG. and MidLG. hinde, OHG. hinta, f., ‘hind’; comp. AS. hind, f., E. hind, OIc. hind, ‘hind’; the common Teut. fem. of Hirsch; Goth. *hindi (gen. *hindjôs), f., is wanting. It is generally connected with Goth. hinþan, ‘to catch’ (to which E. to hunt is allied). Others relate it to Gr. κεμ-άς, f., ‘young deer, pricket’; in that case the dental is a suffix, as in hun-d (allied to Gr. κυν-; see Hund), and n before a dental may originate in m (comp. Sund, Schande, and hundert).