Proto-Indo-European

*terh₁-

‘to rub, turn’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-.

66 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-, most familiar first.

• turn ← turnen ← torner ← tornō ← tornus
• return ← returnen ← returner ← retourner ← retornare
• throw ← throwen ← þrāwan ← *þrāan ← *þrēaną
• tournament ← tornoiement ← tornoiier ← *tornidiō ← tornō
• thread ← thred ← þrǣd ← *þrēduz ← *treh₁-tu-s
• turner ← turnen ← *turnen ← turnēn ← tornō
• tragic ← τραγικός ← τράγος ← τράγω
• threshold ← threschwolde ← þresċold ← *þreskudlaz ← *þreskaną
• trout ← troute ← truht ← tructa ← τρώκτης
• detrimental ← *dētrīmentālis ← dētrīmentum ← dēterō ← terō
• tyrone ← tirone ← tīrō ← triō
• detriment ← detriement ← detrimentum ← dēterere ← terō

More words from *terh₁-

• overturn
• detour
• attrition
• thrash
• tourney
• triage
• trite
• termite
• tribulation
• detritus
• tourniquet
• contrite
• upturn
• threshing
• threadbare
• truant
• thresher
• tyro
• thresh
• derma
• teres
• tragus
• dreidel
• triticum
• terete
• termes
• tournay
• tornillo
• intertrigo
• trema
• attorn
• terebra
• abstersive
• anatripsis
• cephalotribe
• contourné
• contorno
• detournement
• eutripsia
• lithotrity
• terebrant
• terebratulid
• terebratula
• tirocinium
• tournure
• tornaria
• tormogen
• tribade
• triturate
• triture
• triones
• tripsis
• tyrociny
• withturn

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-