Proto-Indo-European

*tend-

‘to stretch’

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

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

• attend ← attenden
• intense ← intens ← intēnsus
• intent ← entente ← entent ← intentus
• intensive ← intensif
• pretentious ← prétentieux ← prétention ← praetēnsus
• tun ← tunne ← tunne ← *tunnǭ ← tunna
• ostensible ← ostensus ← ostendō
• détente ← *dētendita ← dētendō ← tendō
• tonsure ← tonsūra ← tondeō ← *tondeō
• tonneau ← tonnel ← tonel ← tone ← tunna
• tonsorial ← tonsor ← tondeō ← *tondeō
• ostent ← ostenter ← ostentāre ← ostendere ← tendere

More words from *tend-

• toison
• tonsor
• tonsile

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *tend-