Bondage - The Meaning of Bondage in Middle English

Husband, housewife and hussy all have the same root, hoose, meaning house. Hoosweef could mean any woman in charge of the household. The second part of that word, bondy, also produced the word bondage. Bonda was some one who had a right to possess or occupy a piece of land for a specific period of time before feudalism arrived. And you may assume that bondage gave us words like bond and bound and bind, but that's not actually the case. But even though they 're not cognate, both words did acquire that sense of being e to something.