Proto-Italic

*wīs

‘strength, force, power’

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

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

• violent ← violentus ← vīs
• violation ← violātiō ← violō ← vīs
• violate ← violaten ← violat ← violātus ← violō
• vengeance ← vengeaunce ← vengier ← vindicō ← vindex
• vis
• avenge ← avengen ← avengier ← vengier ← vindicāre
• vindication ← vendicacion ← vindicātiō ← vindicō ← vindex
• vim ← vīs
• violator ← violō ← vīs
• inviolable ← inviolābilis ← violō ← vīs
• venge ← vengen ← venger ← vindicō ← vindex
• virial ← vīs

More words from *wīs

• revanchist
• revanchism
• vindex
• revanche
• revanchisme
• vengement
• vindical

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *wīs