Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
‘to stand (up)’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
199 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, most familiar first.
- state ← stat ← estat ← status ← *status
- system ← sisteme ← systēma ← σύστημα ← σῠνίστημῐ
- post ← postis ← *postis ← *h₂pó-sth₂-i-s
- stay ← steyen ← estayer ← staeye
- rest ← reste ← reste ← rester ← restō
- stand ← stonden ← standan ← *standan ← *standaną
- standing ← standynge ← standende ← *standandz ← *standaną
- distance ← distantia ← distāns ← distō ← stō
- assistant ← assistent ← assister ← assistō ← sistō
- stadium ← στάδιον ← στάδιος
- assistance ← assistentia ← assistō ← sistō ← *sistō
- instance ← īnstantia ← īnstāns ← īnstō ← stō
More words from *steh₂-
- stood
- constitution
- arrest
- contest
- consistent
- stable
- establish
- assist
- establishment
- instant
- stability
- stem
- destination
- substance
- resist
- destiny
- distant
- testimony
- static
- insist
- consist
- persistent
- stud
- prostitution
- instability
- stationary
- prostitute
- persist
- stool
- contestant
- stale
- substitution
- stamina
- distal
- attest
- extant
- armistice
- restitution
- stead
- instantaneous
- steadfast
- subsistence
- astute
- solstice
- destitute
- testimonial
- stow
- desist
- metastatic
- stasis
- bestow
- oust
- stalwart
- detest
- metastasis
- homeostasis
- obstinate
- stadia
- histone
- stade
- distantly
- forestall
- attestation
- obstetric
- epistemic
- hydrostatic
- estadio
- destitution
- existentialist
- restive
- histidine
- thana
- thew
- testator
- stater
- instantiation
- stamen
- hydrolase
- stad
- stadion
- lactamase
- thali
- sist
- stanchion
- stabile
- stet
- stoa
- peristyle
- stationer
- antistatic
- hypostatic
- staminate
- sted
- myostatin
- diastasis
- diastema
- astatine
- steatite
- consistorial
- anastasis
- astore
- statice
- arrêt
- instanter
- prostyle
- testimonio
- obstinance
- isostasy
- restitute
- arret
- interstice
- stearin
- stannum
- statical
- instauration
- diastase
- allantoinase
- alcoholase
- amphiprostyle
- amphistylic
- anisostemonous
- anastate
- anhypostasia
- apocatastasis
- astasia
- atstand
- autostylic
- catastasis
- catasta
- catastate
- constitue
- destinate
- destituent
- distantness
- disaccharidase
- etamine
- hyostylic
- institorial
- isostemonous
- justitium
- katastematic
- lactonase
- nondistant
- noust
- obstetrix
- obtest
- obstination
- obtestation
- overstand
- overdistant
- phosphatidase
- polysaccharase
- potomitan
- polysaccharidase
- protostates
- psychostasia
- pygostyle
- rosland
- solstitial
- stylite
- staddle
- stound
- staticity
- stalworth
- stelocyttarous
- stylometer
- steatopyga
- staminodium
- stathmograph
- stearrhea
- stamin
- streptostyly
- stamnos
- stasiology
- stasibasiphobia
- stathmokinetic
- stathmokinesis
- stathmos
- stylitism
- subdistant
- systasis
- testatrix
- testamur
- transhydrogenase
- ultradistant
- undistant
- zaguan
- station
- estate
- exist
- existence
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-