Surround

Morpheme

Surround

Type

free base

Denotation

encircle, enclose, confine, submerge

Etymology

Early Modern English surrounden; Anglo-Norman surounder; Old French soronder, suronder; Late Latin superundare; Latin super + undare, from unda

Evidence

surround, surrounded, surrounder, surrounding, surroundings, surrounds, unsurrounded

Notes

spelling influenced by Round