Proto-Indo-European
*meh₁-
‘to measure’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-.
91 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-, most familiar first.
- month ← mon(e)th ← mōnaþ ← *mānōþ ← *mēnōþs
- moon ← mone ← mōna ← *mānō ← *mēnô
- measure ← mesure ← mesure ← mēnsūra ← mētior
- meal ← mel ← mǣl ← *māl ← *mēlą
- moral ← mōrālis ← mōs ← *mōs
- meter ← metere ← metend
- sunny ← sunni ← *sunniġ ← *sunnig ← *sunnā
- dimensional ← dimension ← dīmēnsiō ← dīmētior ← mētior
- dimension ← dīmēnsiō ← dīmētior ← mētior ← *mētis
- immense ← immens ← immensus ← mensus ← mētior
- metric ← métrique ← metricus ← metrum ← μέτρον
- metre ← metrum ← μέτρον
More words from *meh₁-
- meta
- moody
- morale
- geometric
- parameter
- mesa
- menstrual
- symmetric
- asymmetric
- asymmetry
- commensurate
- piecemeal
- mensa
- madder
- centimetre
- metrology
- mete
- metis
- dimensionless
- metra
- demoralize
- menses
- firman
- moodiness
- commensal
- moralism
- matra
- meniscal
- hexameter
- mahout
- metron
- codimension
- mese
- vimana
- absorptiometry
- commensurable
- meseta
- mensural
- decimeter
- amenorrhoea
- absorptiometer
- admensuration
- agrimensor
- alcoholometer
- alcoholmeter
- ametropia
- amensal
- bdellometer
- chronomentrophobia
- decameter
- decimetre
- decametre
- dimensionwise
- dimensionable
- eigendimension
- fistmele
- glycosometer
- heliometer
- immensurable
- mahawat
- megameter
- menstruum
- mensurable
- menstruous
- mether
- menaion
- mensual
- mensurate
- mensal
- metrify
- nanodimension
- photographometer
- predimension
- rhythmometer
- saccharometer
- saccharometry
- saccharometric
- sobremesa
- subdimension
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-