Proto-Indo-European

*skend-

‘to jump up, ascend’

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

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

• scale ← scāla ← scandō
• scan ← scanne ← scanden ← scandō ← *skandō
• descend ← descenden ← descendere ← dēscendere
• ascension ← ascencioun ← ascēnsiō ← ascendō ← scandō
• slander ← slaundre ← esclandre ← scandalum ← σκάνδαλον
• scandalous ← scandalouse ← scandaleux ← scandalōsus ← scandalum
• escalator ← scala
• scala
• echelon ← échelle ← eschale ← scāla
• scalar ← scālāris ← scāla ← scandō
• ascendant ← ascendent ← ascendentem ← ascendēns ← adscendō
• skein ← skaine ← escaigne

More words from *skend-

• condescend
• scandalize
• echelle
• descension
• ascensor
• condescendence
• desant
• scandent
• scansorial
• scalariform
• scalary

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *skend-