Proto-Indo-European

*swel-

‘firewood, wood, beam’

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

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

• swell ← swellen ← swellan ← *swellan ← *swellaną
• swollen ← *swullanaz ← *swellaną
• methyl ← ῡ̔́λη
• ethyl ← ῡ̔́λη
• dimethyl ← methyl ← Methyl ← ῡ̔́λη
• isopropyl ← propyl ← ῡ̔́λη
• phenyl ← phényle ← ῡ̔́λη
• ethane ← ethyl ← Ethy ← ῡ̔́λη
• swole ← swal ← swellen ← sweall ← *swall
• swill ← swilen ← swillan ← *swilljan ← *swiljaną
• diethyl ← ethyl ← Ethyl ← ῡ̔́λη
• diphenyl ← phenyl ← phényle ← ῡ̔́λη

More words from *swel-

• alkane
• trimethyl
• hyla
• swelter
• swoll
• tetramethyl
• hyle
• hyl
• alkanium
• alkanofer
• bioalkane
• chloroalkane
• chlorofluoroalkane
• desmethyl
• desethyl
• fluoroalkane
• haloalkane
• hylic
• hylogeny
• hyloist
• hydrofluoroalkane
• mesohyl
• odyle
• phenanthridine
• polyhaloalkane
• protyle
• pteryla
• sweal
• swally
• triphenyl
• ylem

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *swel-