Proto-Indo-European

*kret-

‘to shake’

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

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

• hard ← heard ← *hard(ī) ← *harduz ← *kort-ús
• rather ← hraþor ← hraþe ← *hraþē ← *hradō
• hardly ← hardely ← heardlīċe ← heard ← *hard(ī)
• hardship ← hardshipe ← hard ← heard ← *hard(ī)
• bureaucracy ← bureaucratie ← κρᾰ́τος ← *krét-os
• harden ← hardenen ← heardian ← *hard(ī) ← hierdan
• bureaucratic ← bureaucratique ← bureaucratie ← κρᾰ́τος ← *krét-os
• aristocracy ← aristocratie ← aristocratia ← ἀριστοκρατίᾱ ← ἄριστος
• hardness ← heardnes ← heard ← *hard(ī) ← *harduz
• bureaucrat ← bureaucrate ← bureaucratie ← κρᾰ́τος ← *krét-os
• craton ← κράτος ← *krét-os
• crataegus ← κράταιγος ← κρᾰτῠ́ς ← *kr̥tús

More words from *kret-

• rathe
• bureaucratically
• pankration
• akrasia
• acrotism
• acratia
• antibureaucratic
• antibureaucracy
• anacrotism
• antibureaucrat
• autocrator
• bureaucratese
• bureaucratist
• bureaucratism
• bureaucratitis
• bureaucratess
• bureaucratistic
• bureaucratspeak
• contrabureaucratic
• debureaucratic
• dicrotism
• dollarocracy
• epistocracy
• extrabureaucratic
• hardsome
• kratocracy
• monocrotism
• multibureaucratic
• nonbureaucratic
• nonbureaucrat
• pancratium
• pancratic
• postbureaucratic
• probureaucratic
• superbureaucrat
• technobureaucratic
• technobureaucracy
• technobureaucrat
• unbureaucratic

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kret-