Proto-Indo-European
*peth₂-
‘to fly’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-.
111 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-, most familiar first.
- pass ← passen ← passer ← *passāre ← passus
- mile ← myle ← mīl ← *mīliju ← mīlia
- expansion ← expānsiō ← expandō ← pandō ← *pandō
- repeat ← repeten ← repeter ← repeter ← repetō
- compete ← competer ← competere ← petō ← *péth₂eti
- pen ← penne ← penne ← penne ← penna
- expand ← espaundre ← expandō ← pandō ← *pandō
- petition ← peticiun ← petitio ← petō ← *péth₂eti
- passage ← passer ← *passāre ← passus ← *pat-s-tus
- patent ← patēns ← pateō ← *patēō ← *pandō
- helicopter ← hélicoptère ← πτερόν ← *pterón ← *péth₂r̥
- competent ← competens ← competō ← petō ← *péth₂eti
More words from *peth₂-
- competitor
- compass
- feather
- symptom
- perpetual
- repetition
- spawn
- impetus
- expanse
- perpetuate
- trespass
- symptomatic
- perpetuity
- pennant
- passable
- petulant
- patina
- pinion
- impetuous
- patella
- pata
- penna
- petulance
- asymptote
- traipse
- ptosis
- symptomatology
- pterygoid
- impetigo
- pase
- passerine
- spandrel
- patera
- pteranodon
- propitiate
- pterygium
- ornithopter
- passata
- dipteran
- ptomaine
- pterostigma
- petechia
- passerelle
- passen
- aberdevine
- antiptosis
- apetalous
- appetence
- appetible
- appetition
- apteran
- apteral
- apterium
- cerebripetal
- compital
- competitrix
- dipteros
- hexapterous
- impetigines
- impetiginous
- monopteros
- patress
- patibulum
- patulous
- patana
- patteran
- pandiculate
- passeriform
- patibulary
- patena
- paremptosis
- pasitrote
- pennaceous
- pennate
- penniform
- petitor
- pennatula
- pennage
- petalism
- petalody
- peripterous
- petalum
- periptery
- pennal
- petasius
- peripter
- potamography
- potamian
- pteroclid
- pteron
- pteronophobia
- pteroma
- pteroid
- pteruge
- pteric
- repetitio
- repand
- suppeditate
- triptote
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-