Proto-Indo-European
*bʰuH-
‘to grow, swell, be’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
126 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-, most familiar first.
- be ← been ← bēon ← *beun ← *beuną
- been ← ġebēon ← bēon ← *beun ← *beuną
- power ← poer ← pooir ← potēre ← posse
- possible ← possibilis ← possum ← *possom ← *som
- future ← futur ← futūrus ← sum
- present ← presenten ← presenter ← praesentō ← praesens
- build ← bilden ← byldan ← *buþlijan ← *buþlą
- physical ← physicālis ← physica ← φυσική ← φυσικός
- improve ← improbō ← probō ← *proβāō ← *proβos
- presence ← praesentia ← praesēns ← praesum ← sum
- essential ← essentiālis ← essentia ← *essēns ← sum
- bond ← bonde ← bōnda ← bóndi ← būend
More words from *bʰuH-
- represent
- bush
- bound
- physics
- absence
- contribution
- representation
- presentation
- physician
- entity
- booth
- approve
- probability
- absent
- favorable
- distribute
- contributor
- fiat
- bun
- favourable
- bondage
- bouquet
- retribution
- attribution
- imp
- absentee
- rebuke
- impotent
- impossibility
- bower
- aren
- absentia
- beamer
- bosque
- phylogeny
- physic
- phylum
- approbation
- busk
- boor
- bist
- futur
- buisson
- potentate
- boodle
- erbium
- bhumi
- abeam
- bouchon
- emboss
- boun
- potentilla
- ambuscade
- beest
- physis
- phylon
- lowboy
- beme
- bhoot
- favori
- paraphyletic
- citybound
- potence
- phyton
- buron
- hautbois
- bosk
- absentation
- absit
- approbative
- approbator
- attributor
- ébauche
- ballybetagh
- beeth
- bhavai
- blastophyly
- bosket
- boscage
- boiserie
- bosberaad
- buscon
- bydlo
- chairbound
- comprobate
- diphyodonty
- diphycercal
- diphygenic
- diphyozooid
- diphyodont
- emphyteusis
- emphyteuticary
- fautor
- fautrix
- fautress
- histophyly
- hoboy
- homophyly
- improbate
- improbation
- infaust
- morphophyly
- organophyly
- phylarch
- phytophagy
- phyle
- physiophyly
- probableness
- probator
- probabiliorist
- presentaneous
- presentiation
- representamen
- symphytism
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-