Bondage
Middle English: from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond ‘serf’ (earlier ‘peasant, householder’), from Old Norse bóndi ‘tiller of the soil’, based on búa ‘dwell’; influenced in sense by bond.
wiktionary
From Middle English bondage(“serfdom”), from BritishMedieval Latin bondagium(“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond(“a tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda(“a householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin.
etymonline
bondage (n.)
c. 1300, "legal condition of a serf or slave," from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from or cognate with Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow." For sense evolution, see bond (adj.). The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1963 (in a New York law against publications portraying it).
