Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
‘to sit’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *sed-.
137 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *sed-, most familiar first.
- set ← setten ← settan ← *sattjan ← *satjaną
- president ← praesidēns ← praesideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō
- size ← syse ← cise ← assidēre ← sedeō
- sell ← selle ← selle ← sele ← sella
- sit ← sitten ← sittan ← *sittjan ← *sitjaną
- sitting ← sittinge ← sittende ← *sitjandz ← *sitjaną
- seat ← sete ← sǣte ← sæti ← *sētiją
- method ← methode ← methodus ← μέθοδος ← ὁδός
- session ← sessiō ← sedeō ← *sedēō ← *sed-éh₁-ye-ti
- chair ← chayere ← chaiere ← cathedra ← κᾰθέδρᾱ
- possession ← possessio ← possideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō
- resident ← residēns ← resideō ← sedeō ← *sedēō
More words from *sed-
- settle
- assess
- nest
- possess
- siege
- obsession
- niche
- saddle
- exodus
- reside
- subsidy
- sedan
- residue
- residual
- sediment
- nye
- insidious
- possessive
- sedentary
- dissident
- beset
- prasad
- cathode
- soot
- sedative
- setter
- obsess
- assessor
- anode
- sedate
- chaise
- presidio
- sate
- presidente
- sessile
- presidium
- besiege
- seance
- ersatz
- salo
- séance
- assize
- nidal
- polyhedron
- nias
- dissidence
- sellar
- nidus
- sitz
- sederunt
- praesidium
- sedes
- residencia
- surcease
- prasada
- overset
- mistle
- assiette
- sitten
- supersession
- edaphic
- cochair
- chairside
- sedentism
- ashet
- assident
- assiduate
- chairward
- chairlike
- chairless
- chairship
- chairness
- chairhood
- chairwise
- coprodeum
- edaphology
- edaphophyte
- edaphosaurus
- edaphologic
- edaphological
- edaphism
- edaphoecological
- epanodos
- esodic
- exodos
- exodist
- exodium
- forset
- foreset
- hexecontahedron
- holohedral
- hydrogode
- insidiate
- insidiator
- insession
- kathisophobia
- nide
- nidify
- nidicolous
- nidation
- nidiform
- nidology
- obsidional
- odology
- parodos
- paredros
- phallodeum
- presidial
- presidentiable
- prosodion
- presidentiary
- rhynchodaeum
- saeter
- sejant
- sedent
- setten
- sedilium
- sellary
- sitzkrieg
- sitzmark
- supersedeas
- synedrion
- tanist
- urodeum
- withset
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed-