Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
‘to drive’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
192 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-, most familiar first.
- act ← acte ← ācta ← agō ← *agō
- action ← accioun ← aucion ← āctiō ← āctum
- active ← actyf ← actif ← āctīvus ← agō
- agency ← agentia ← agēns ← agō ← *agō
- activity ← activité ← āctīvitās ← āctīvus ← agō
- actual ← actuel ← actuālis ← actus ← agō
- agent ← agēns ← agō ← *agō ← *h₂éǵeti
- suggest ← suggestus ← sub ← *supo ← *upó
- strategy ← stratēgia ← στρατηγία ← στρᾰτηγός ← ἄγω
- reaction ← reaccion ← reāctiō ← agō ← *agō
- actor ← actour ← āctus ← agō ← *agō
- register ← registrum ← regesta ← regerō ← gerō
More words from *h₂eǵ-
- agenda
- actively
- essay
- transaction
- acre
- gesture
- activate
- radioactive
- digest
- congestion
- inactive
- agony
- ambiguous
- squat
- agile
- ambiguity
- agility
- antagonist
- digestion
- assay
- reactionary
- agrarian
- agitation
- belligerent
- axiom
- progesterone
- gestation
- ingestion
- retroactive
- unambiguous
- reagent
- hyperactivity
- antagonism
- agonist
- ingest
- radium
- actuator
- cogent
- digestible
- agitate
- antagonize
- axiomatic
- actuation
- stratagem
- ambiguously
- glucagon
- agger
- samaj
- inexact
- exigent
- agonize
- actuate
- gerund
- gestion
- actus
- agonistic
- coagulate
- examen
- actio
- exigency
- exacta
- agito
- progestogen
- bioactivity
- disambiguate
- agaric
- overactivity
- agonistes
- agonism
- exaction
- axiology
- gerundive
- strategos
- congeries
- actrice
- inexactitude
- agoge
- exiguous
- ambigu
- abaction
- abigeus
- actrix
- acturience
- actitation
- actuatable
- actuability
- agendum
- agitatrix
- agogic
- aginator
- agible
- agminate
- agitolalia
- agitophasia
- agminal
- agminated
- agrihorticulture
- agitographia
- agrohorticulture
- agé
- agonophilia
- ambages
- ambagious
- ambiguousness
- ambiguate
- ambiguation
- ambage
- ambiguify
- ambiguator
- anagoge
- anagogy
- anagogics
- autogestion
- autoactivity
- autagonistophilia
- axioma
- bioinactive
- coact
- cogitabund
- coactivity
- coagmentation
- coagment
- cruciger
- cytoactivity
- deuteragonist
- digestable
- disambiguity
- egestion
- egest
- egesta
- epagomenal
- epagomena
- exigible
- excogitate
- exagitate
- fustigate
- gerent
- gestant
- gerant
- gerundial
- hypoactivity
- ichnoactivity
- inactively
- indigitate
- incogitant
- ingesta
- inactiveness
- inambiguous
- microactivity
- multiactivity
- myoactivity
- neuroactivity
- nonambiguous
- nonactivity
- nonambiguity
- objurgate
- outrecuidance
- outrecuidant
- paragoge
- periaktos
- peragrate
- peragration
- photoinactive
- photoactivity
- piezoactivity
- prodigate
- protagon
- preactivity
- reactuate
- seroactivity
- strategus
- strategian
- suggestum
- subact
- subactivity
- synaxis
- thermoactivity
- unambiguity
- unagrarian
- vasoactivity
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-