Proto-Indo-European

*telh₂-

‘to bear, to undergo, to endure’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-.

28 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-, most familiar first.

• talent ← talente ← talentum ← τάλαντον ← *tálanton
• toll ← tollō ← *tolnō ← *tl̥néh₂ti
• tolerance ← toleraunce ← tolerantia ← tolerāns ← tolerō
• tolerate ← tolerātus ← tolerō
• atlas
• tolerant ← tolerans ← tolerō
• intolerable ← intolerābilis ← tolerābilis ← tolerō
• tolerable ← tolerābilis ← tolerō
• toleration ← tolerātiōnem ← tolerō
• extol ← extollō ← tollō ← *tolnō ← *tl̥néh₂ti ~ *tl̥nh₂énti
• tellurium ← tellūs
• thole ← þolian ← *þolēn ← *þulāną

More words from *telh₂-

• telamon
• ablate
• tellurian
• tolt
• atlantes
• epipolism
• maletote
• opitulation
• paranatellon
• sublative
• sublation
• talanton
• tellurion
• thoil
• tholemod
• thyle

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-