Proto-Indo-European

*(s)tewp-

‘to push, beat’

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

29 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, most familiar first.

• stop ← stoppen ← stoppian ← *stoppōn ← *stuppōną
• type ← typus ← τύπος ← τύπτω
• stuff ← stuffen ← estoffer ← stoffōn ← *stoppōn
• typical ← typicalis ← typicus ← typus ← τυπικός
• steep ← stēap ← *staup ← *staupaz
• stubborn ← stiborne ← *stybbor ← stybb ← *stubb
• stub ← stubbe ← stybb ← *stubb ← *stubbaz
• archetype ← architipe ← archetypum ← ἀρχέτυπον ← ἀρχέτυπος
• stupendous ← stupendus ← stupeō ← *(s)tup-éh₁-ye-ti
• timbre ← τύμπανον ← τῠ́πτω
• timpani ← timpano ← tympanum ← τύμπανον ← τύπτω
• tympanum ← τῠ́μπᾰνον ← τῠ́πτω

More words from *(s)tewp-

• tympany
• timbrel
• antitypous
• brachytypous
• ectype
• forstop
• shtof
• stupend
• staffage
• titubate
• timpano
• titubant
• tympanites
• tympano
• typolite
• typtology
• tympanoid

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-