Proto-Indo-European

*stísteh₂ti

‘to be standing up, to be getting up’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti.

51 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, most familiar first.

• system ← sisteme ← systēma ← σύστημα ← σῠνίστημῐ
• assistant ← assistent ← assister ← assistō ← sistō
• assistance ← assistentia ← assistō ← sistō ← *sistō
• consistent ← cōnsistēntem ← cōnsistō ← *kom- ← *kom
• assist ← assisten ← assister ← assistō ← sistō
• resist ← resisten ← resister ← resistere ← sistō
• static ← staticus ← στᾰτῐκός ← ἵστημι ← *hístāmi
• insist ← insister ← īnsistō ← sistō ← *sistō
• consist ← consister ← consistō ← sistō ← *sistō
• persistent ← persistentem ← persistō ← sistō ← *sistō
• persist ← persister ← persistere ← sistō ← *sistō
• armistice ← armistitium ← arma ← sistō ← *sistō

More words from *stísteh₂ti

• subsistence
• solstice
• desist
• metastatic
• histone
• hydrostatic
• existentialist
• stater
• hydrolase
• lactamase
• sist
• antistatic
• hypostatic
• diastema
• astatine
• consistorial
• anastasis
• statice
• interstice
• statical
• diastase
• allantoinase
• alcoholase
• anastate
• apocatastasis
• catastate
• disaccharidase
• institorial
• justitium
• katastematic
• lactonase
• phosphatidase
• polysaccharase
• polysaccharidase
• protostates
• psychostasia
• solstitial
• staticity
• transhydrogenase

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti