Proto-Indo-European

*srew-

‘to flow’

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

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

• stream ← streem ← *straum ← *straumaz ← *srowmos
• rhythm ← rhythmus ← ῥῠθμός ← *hrutʰmós ← *sru-dʰ-mo-s
• rhythmic ← ῥυθμικός ← ῥῠθμός ← *hrutʰmós ← *sru-dʰ-mo-s
• streamer ← stremere ← strem ← strēam ← *straum
• arrhythmia ← ἀρρυθμία ← ἄρρυθμος ← ῥυθμός ← *hrutʰmós
• maelstrom ← malen ← *melh₂-
• rheumatism ← rheumatismus ← ῥευματισμός ← ῥεῦμα ← *hréumə
• rheumatic ← rheumatique ← rheumaticus ← ῥευματικός ← ῥεῦμα
• rheumatology ← ῥεῦμα ← *hréumə ← *sréwmn̥
• hemorrhoid ← emerowdes ← emorroides ← haemorrhoidae ← αἱμορροΐς
• rhythmical ← rhythmic ← ῥυθμικός ← ῥῠθμός ← *hrutʰmós
• rheology ← ῥέω ← *hréwō ← *sréweti

More words from *srew-

• rheum
• rheostat
• biorhythm
• rhythmicity
• dysrhythmia
• polyrhythm
• rhyton
• arhythmic
• arheic
• autorhythmic
• birhythmic
• dysrhythmic
• endorheic
• eurhythmic
• exorheic
• extrarhythmic
• heterorhythmic
• homorhythmic
• homorhythm
• irrhythmic
• isorhythmic
• logorrhean
• microrhythm
• monorhythmic
• nonrhythmic
• panrhythmic
• rhythmless
• rhythmics
• rhythmer
• rhythmus
• rhythmist
• rhythmal
• rhythmize
• rhyacolite
• rhythmicize
• rheotan
• tachyrhythmia
• unrhythmic
• urstromtal

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *srew-