Hive
Old English hȳf, of Germanic origin.
wiktionary
From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi (compare Dutch huif(“beehive”), Danish dialect huv(“ship’s hull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp-(“water vessel”) (compare Latin cūpa(“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη(kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον(kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप(kū́pa, “cave”)), from *kew-(“to bend, curve”). The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see [1].
etymonline
hive (n.)
Old English hyf "beehive," from Proto-Germanic *hufiz (source also of Old Norse hufr "hull of a ship"), from PIE *keup- "round container, bowl" (source also of Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kypellon "cup," Latin cupa "tub, cask, vat;" see cup (n.)). Figurative sense of "swarming, busy place" is from 1630s.
hive (v.)
of bees, etc., "to form (themselves) into a hive," c. 1400, from hive (n.). Transitive sense, "to put (bees) in a hive," is from mid-15c. Related: Hived; hiving.
