Proto-Indo-European

*snḗh₁wr̥

‘band, sinew’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥.

19 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥, most familiar first.

• nerve ← nervus ← *neuros ← *(s)nēuros
• neural ← νεῦρον
• neuron ← νεῦρον
• sinewy ← synwy ← synwe ← sinu ← *sinu
• aponeurosis ← ἀπονεύρωσῐς ← ἀ̆πονευρόομαι ← νεῦρον
• enervate ← ēnervātus ← ēnervō ← nervus ← *neuros
• nervure ← nerf ← nerf ← nerf ← nervus
• neuropil ← νεῦρον
• aneurophyte ← νεῦρον
• enervous ← enervis ← nervus ← *neuros ← *(s)nēuros
• epineurium ← νεῦρον
• neurula ← νεῦρον

More words from *snḗh₁wr̥

• neura
• nervation
• neurose
• neuropilema
• nerue
• neurophobia
• trinervate

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥