Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeyǵʰ-

‘to knead’

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

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

• figure ← figūra
• lady ← hlǣfdīġe ← dǣġe ← *daigijǭ
• fiction ← ficcioun ← ficcion ← fictiō ← fingō
• paradise ← paradis ← paradīs ← paradis ← paradīsus
• dairy ← deyerie ← deyerie ← deye
• dough ← dow ← dāg ← *daig ← *daigaz
• faint ← faynt ← fingere
• nonfiction ← fiction ← ficcioun ← ficcion ← fictiō
• fictitious ← fictīcius ← fictus ← fingō ← *fingō
• dey ← deye ← dǣġe ← *daigijā ← *daigijǭ
• effigy ← effigie ← effigiēs ← effingō ← fingō
• feign ← feynen ← feindre ← fingo ← *fingō

More words from *dʰeyǵʰ-

• figment
• feint
• fictitiously
• parvis
• thixotropic
• paradisiacal
• microfiction
• effigiate
• fictionary
• fictitiousness
• fictionist
• fictioneer
• fictionize
• fictile
• fictor
• fictionization
• fictionish
• fictiony
• hyperfiction
• paradisiac
• teichoic
• telefiction
• teichuronic
• teiglach
• teixobactin
• unfictitious
• unfiction

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-