abound

the word "abound" entered english in the 14th century from the old french "abonder," meaning to be abundant or overflow. this, in turn, traces back to the latin "abundare," a combination of "ab-" (away, off) and "undare" (to rise in waves, to overflow), from "unda" (a wave). the core imagery is of water overflowing its banks, which evolved metaphorically to signify a plentiful, overflowing quantity of anything. the semantic logic shifted from a literal flood to the modern abstract sense of existing in great profusion.

the word is a simplex form derived from a single latin root. it is not productively segmented into smaller, meaningful substrings in modern english spelling.