Proto-Hellenic

*wóikos

‘a settlement’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Hellenic *wóikos.

31 English words in this record descend from Proto-Hellenic *wóikos, most familiar first.

• parish ← parisshe ← paroisse ← parochia ← παροικία
• ecology ← οἶκος
• diocese ← diocise ← diocēsis ← dioecēsis ← διοίκησις
• archdiocese ← archdiocesis ← dioecēsis ← διοίκησις ← διοικέω
• parochial ← parochialis ← παροικία ← πάροικος ← οἶκος
• oikos ← οἶκος
• gynoecium ← οἰκῐ́ον ← οἶκος
• metic ← metycus ← μέτοικος ← οἶκος
• androecium ← οἰκῐ́ον ← οἶκος
• ecumene ← οἰκουμένη ← οἰκέω ← οἶκος
• catoecic ← κᾰτοικῐκός ← κᾰ́τοικος ← οἶκος
• dioecy ← οἰκία ← οἰκέω ← οἶκος

More words from *wóikos

• ecolect
• ecumenic
• ekistics
• homoecy
• metœcus
• oecus
• oecium
• oecist
• oikumene
• oikophobia
• oikonym
• oikology
• oikocryst
• oikophobe
• oikophobic
• paroecious
• perioecus
• polykatoikia
• synoekete

Etymograph / Proto-Hellenic *wóikos