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Simplified etymology
Bundle, recorded from Middle English, may come from Old English byndelle, “a binding.” From the mid-18th century it was also applied to parallel groups of muscle or nerve fibres, and in late-19th-century American slang it came to mean a large sum of money.
Etymology
From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel ('collection of bound things'), related to bind, from Proto-Germanic *bindan.
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