Proto-Indo-European

*kelh₂-

‘to beat, break’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-.

42 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-, most familiar first.

• clerk ← clerc ← clerc ← clēricus ← κληρικός
• coup ← colpus ← colaphus ← κόλαφος
• holly ← holeġn ← *hulis
• clergy ← clergie ← clergie ← clēricātus ← clēricus
• holt ← *hultą ← *kald-
• cleric ← clēricus ← κληρικός ← κλῆρος ← *kleh₂-
• clerical ← clēricālis ← clēricus ← κληρικός ← κλῆρος
• calamity ← calamité ← calamitās
• gladiator ← gladius ← *kladyos ← *kladiwos ← *kladeti
• calamitous ← calamiteux ← calamitōsus
• clematis ← κληματίς ← κλῆμα ← κλάω
• clade ← κλάδος ← *klə́dos ← *kl̥d-o-s

More words from *kelh₂-

• gladiolus
• gladius
• glaive
• clastic
• hollin
• clava
• clavate
• coloboma
• claviform
• clerisy
• alloclasite
• chronoclasm
• clastogenic
• clastogenesis
• cleromancy
• clastogen
• clavula
• clavule
• cladus
• clavellate
• clastokine
• clastosome
• clerocracy
• digladiate
• gladiole
• gladiate
• gladen
• kleros
• orthoclastic
• trichoclasis

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-