Proto-Indo-European

*péth₂r̥

‘wing’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥.

24 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥, most familiar first.

• helicopter ← hélicoptère ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• feather ← fethere ← feþer ← *feþru ← *feþrō
• pterygoid ← pterygoīdēs ← πτερῠγοειδής ← πτέρῠξ ← πτερόν
• pteranodon ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• pterygium ← πτερύγιον ← πτέρυξ ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• ornithopter ← ornithoptère ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• pterostigma ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• aberdevine ← aderyn ← adar ← atar ← *ɸatar
• apteran ← πτερ(όν) ← *pterón
• apteral ← ἄπτερος ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• apterium ← πτερόν ← *pterón
• dipteros ← δίπτερος ← πτερόν ← *pterón

More words from *péth₂r̥

• hexapterous
• monopteros
• peripterous
• periptery
• peripter
• pteroclid
• pteron
• pteronophobia
• pteroma
• pteroid
• pteruge
• pteric

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥