Proto-Indo-European

*bʰedʰh₂-

‘to stab, dig’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-.

19 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-, most familiar first.

• bed ← bedd ← *badi ← *badją ← *bʰodʰ-yó-m
• battle ← batel ← bataille ← battālia ← battuālia
• combat ← combatre ← *combattere ← battuō
• battery ← batterie ← baterie ← batre ← battuō
• bat ← batten ← batre ← battere ← battuo
• fossil ← fossile ← fossilis ← fodio ← *foðjō
• bascule ← bacule ← bacul ← battre ← battuō
• calaboose ← calabousse ← calabozo ← *calafodium ← fodiō
• fossorial ← fossōrius ← fodiō ← *foðjō ← *bʰódʰh₂ey
• battailous ← bataylous ← bataillos ← bataille ← battālia
• bacule ← bacul ← battre ← battuō
• battailant ← batailler ← bataille ← bataille ← bataille

More words from *bʰedʰh₂-

• battalia
• calabozo
• effodient
• effodicate
• fossor
• fossorious
• fodinichnion

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-