Proto-Indo-European

*trewd-

‘to push, to thrust’

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

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

• threat ← threten ← þrēatian
• threaten ← thretenen ← þrēatnian
• thrust ← þrusten ← þrysta ← *þrustijaną
• intrude ← intrudere ← trūdō ← *troudō
• extrusion ← extrūdere ← trūdō ← *troudō
• protrude ← prōtrūdere ← prōtrūdō ← *pro- ← *pro-
• protrusion
• abstruse ← abstrūsus ← abstrūdō ← trūdō ← *troudō
• detrusor ← trūdō ← *troudō
• obtrude ← obtrūdō ← trūdō ← *troudō
• abstrude ← abstrūdō ← trūdō ← *troudō
• abstrusion ← abstrusio ← abstrūdō ← trūdō ← *troudō

More words from *trewd-

• abstrused
• contrude
• retrusion
• subtrude
• trusion

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *trewd-