Proto-Indo-European

*werh₁-

‘to speak, say’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-.

26 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, most familiar first.

• word ← *wurdą ← *werdʰom
• rhetoric ← rhetorik ← rhetorique ← rhētoricus ← ῥητορικός
• verbal ← verbālis ← verbum ← *werðom ← *werdʰom
• verb ← verbe ← verbe ← verbum ← *werðom
• verbatim ← verbum ← *werðom ← *werdʰom
• verve ← verva ← verba ← verbum
• adverb ← adverbe ← adverbium ← verbum ← *werðom
• verbose ← verbōsus ← verbum ← *werðom ← *werdʰom
• adverbial ← adverbiālis ← adverbi(um) ← verbum ← *werðom
• verbosity ← verbosité ← verbōsitās ← verbōsus ← verbum
• rhema ← ῥῆμα ← εἴρω ← *wéřřō ← *wéryeti
• rhetor ← rethor ← retor ← ῥήτωρ ← εἴρω

More words from *werh₁-

• vort
• choleresis
• converb
• diverb
• epirrhema
• rheme
• rhetic
• rhematic
• rhesis
• univerbation
• verbophobia
• verbile
• verbarium
• vranyo

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-