Proto-Indo-European

*kʷey-

‘to perceive’

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

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

• pain ← peyne ← peine ← poena ← ποινή
• penalty ← pénalité ← poenālis ← ποινή ← *kʷoinā́
• poetry ← poetrye ← pöeterie ← poētria ← poēta
• punishment ← punishement ← punissement ← punir ← puniō
• painful ← paynful
• poem ← poème ← poēma ← ποίημα ← ποιέω
• poet ← poete ← poete ← poete ← poēta
• pine ← pyne ← *pīnā ← poena ← ποινή
• punish ← punischen ← puniō ← poena ← ποινή
• poetic ← poetique ← poeticus ← ποιητικός ← ποιέω
• titanium ← Tītān ← Τῑτᾱ́ν ← τιταίνω ← τείνω
• painfully ← peinfully

More words from *kʷey-

• penal
• punitive
• subpoena
• impunity
• painless
• whey
• onomatopoeia
• chedi
• peine
• penology
• poesy
• chaitya
• impune
• poiesis
• piyyut
• atimy
• chinovnik
• mythopoesis
• philotimia
• poetaster
• poietic
• poesiology
• punition
• timocracy
• titanotherium

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-