Proto-Indo-European
*dʰregʰ-
‘to run, to drag, to pull’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-.
66 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-, most familiar first.
- train ← trayne ← traïner ← *tragīnāre ← trahere
- draw ← dragen ← dragan ← *dragan ← *draganą
- draft ← draught ← *dreaht ← *drahti ← *drahtuz
- drawing ← drauinge ← dragende ← *dragandz ← *draganą
- attractive ← attractif ← attractīvus ← attrahō ← trahō
- drag ← draggen ← dragen ← dragan ← *dragan
- portrait ← portraict ← portraire ← prōtrahō ← trahō
- retreat ← retret ← retrait ← retractus ← retraho
- attraction ← attraccioun ← attractiō ← attrahō ← trahō
- trainer ← train ← trayne ← train ← *tragīnāre
- withdraw ← withdrawen
- extraction ← estraction ← extractio ← extrahō ← trahō
More words from *dʰregʰ-
- distraction
- drawer
- tract
- contraction
- abstraction
- draught
- retract
- subtraction
- entreat
- abstractly
- anadromous
- trochanter
- detraction
- trochaic
- trochus
- truckle
- protract
- tractability
- troche
- trochlea
- stracciatella
- trochee
- distrait
- abstractive
- abstractum
- adraw
- attrectation
- contrectation
- detrectation
- distraite
- droshky
- estreat
- obtrectation
- peridrome
- peridromophile
- peridromophily
- retraxit
- retractation
- subtrahend
- telotrochal
- tractation
- tractator
- tractatrix
- trochil
- tractile
- trochilics
- trochilic
- trochal
- trochiscus
- trochilus
- trochin
- trocheus
- trechometer
- trochiter
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-