Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *bandijanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_bandijaną
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verbWeak class 1To bind, fetter, restrain; stretchTo bendFrom *bindaną (‘to bind, tie’) + *-(i)janą(causative suffix forming Weak class 1 verbs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰondʰ-éye/o-, causative of the root *bʰendʰ- (‘to bind, bond’). The sense ‘to bend, inflect’ (Old Norse and Old English only) is probably derived from the act of bending a bow in order to bind it.