Proto-Indo-European
*wert-
‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
108 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, most familiar first.
- university ← universite ← université ← universitei ← universitas
- word ← worth ← worthen ← weorþan ← *werþan
- worth ← weorþ ← *werþ ← *werþaz
- version ← versiō ← vertō ← *wertō
- weird ← werde ← wyrd ← *wurdi ← *wurdiz
- conversation ← conversacioun ← conversacion ← conversātiōnem ← conversātiō
- universe ← univers ← ūniversus ← versus ← vorsus
- ridiculous ← rīdiculus ← rīdeō
- divorce ← dīvortium ← dīvertere ← vertō ← *wertō
- diversity ← diversite ← diversité ← dīversitās ← dīversus
- versus ← vertō ← *wertō
- worthy ← worthien ← weorþian ← *werþōną
More words from *wert-
- diverse
- verse
- vertical
- adverse
- advertisement
- worthless
- versatile
- convertible
- diversion
- vortex
- advert
- divert
- inverse
- adversity
- revert
- ridicule
- pervert
- transverse
- inversion
- aversion
- diversification
- vertex
- perverse
- vertigo
- avert
- averse
- vert
- vertebrate
- subvert
- introvert
- perversion
- derision
- vertebra
- invert
- verso
- reversion
- evert
- deride
- derisive
- perversity
- wurst
- extraversion
- vertiginous
- risible
- suzerain
- wyrd
- diverticulum
- divertimento
- extravert
- inversus
- versant
- controvert
- advertent
- adversaria
- adversant
- adversion
- antevert
- arride
- avertissement
- aversio
- blogoverse
- circumvert
- derisible
- diversificate
- diversiform
- diversory
- diverticle
- eversive
- gwerz
- irrision
- otrovert
- revertible
- renversement
- revertent
- retrovert
- rident
- risorial
- risorius
- subrident
- subrisive
- subrision
- transvert
- unworth
- versor
- vertebre
- versicle
- verticillate
- vertisol
- versute
- versiculus
- vertible
- versty
- vortical
- vorticel
- weirdless
- worthly
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert-