Proto-Italic

*dwenos

‘good’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *dwenos.

61 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *dwenos, most familiar first.

• beautiful ← bewteful ← beaute ← biauté ← *bellitātem
• beauty ← bewty ← beauté ← *bellitātem ← bellus
• ben ← bene ← *duenēd ← duenos
• bonus ← duonus ← duenos
• beneficial ← beneficiālis ← beneficium ← beneficus ← bene
• rebel ← rebelle ← rebellis ← rebellō ← bellō
• optimal ← bonus ← duonus ← duenos
• rebellion ← rebellioun ← rebelliō ← rebellō ← bellō
• boo ← beau ← beau ← biau ← bellus
• bonnie ← *bonie ← bon ← bonus ← duonus
• optimism ← optimisme ← bonus ← duonus ← duenos
• beau ← bellus ← *duenelos ← duenos

More words from *dwenos

• boon
• beneficiary
• rebellious
• bona
• revel
• bello
• bene
• bonny
• rebelling
• benefice
• bauble
• bellicose
• beaucoup
• bonbon
• beauteous
• parabellum
• benefic
• reveller
• duelo
• optime
• melioration
• duello
• bellic
• beneficium
• bellicist
• beneficiate
• bellicism
• benevolous
• benocclusion
• bellatrice
• bienness
• bonify
• boniform
• bonbonniere
• bookoo
• bonism
• debellate
• debellation
• debellatio
• extrabellum
• imbellic
• imbonity
• interbellic
• meliorist
• meliorative
• meliorism
• meliority
• optimity
• rebeller

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *dwenos