Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeh₂-

‘to speak’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-.

170 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-, most familiar first.

• phone ← telephone ← téléphone ← φωνή ← *pʰōnā́
• focus
• professor ← proffessur ← profiteor ← fateor ← *fatēōr
• famous ← fāmōsus ← fāma ← *fāmā ← *bʰéh₂meh₂
• fuel ← fuayle ← fouaille ← focus
• ben ← *bōni ← *bōniz
• phase ← phasis ← φάσις ← φᾰ(ν)- ← *pʰáňňō
• favor ← favour ← favour ← faveō ← *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti
• favourite ← favorit ← favorit ← favorire ← favore
• ban ← bannen ← bannan ← *bannan ← *bannaną
• fantasy ← fantasie ← fantasie ← phantasia ← φαντασία
• fate ← fāta ← fātus ← *fātos ← *bʰh₂-tó-s

More words from *bʰeh₂-

• fancy
• fame
• photographer
• emphasis
• phenomenon
• profession
• fatal
• bee
• fairy
• fabulous
• abandon
• infant
• confession
• confess
• phantom
• symphony
• infamous
• beacon
• beck
• boon
• abandonment
• eff
• fab
• fay
• bane
• prophetic
• epiphany
• fable
• saxophone
• foyer
• banish
• confessional
• phonetic
• buoy
• nefarious
• profess
• fantasia
• bene
• confessor
• banal
• infamy
• phenomenology
• gramophone
• affable
• prophesy
• phenol
• phenom
• cacophony
• phenomenally
• tryptophan
• defame
• phoneme
• beek
• ineffable
• beckon
• phantasm
• phonon
• euphonium
• fusilier
• prophetess
• sinfonia
• focaccia
• symphonia
• confab
• diaphanous
• phosgene
• photolithography
• fantastico
• prefatory
• fusillade
• hierophant
• phonation
• sinfonietta
• confabulation
• fabulist
• photometer
• phasma
• fabula
• phantasia
• euphonious
• euphony
• dysphonia
• fusil
• confessio
• allophonic
• telophase
• favel
• phasmid
• phane
• confiteor
• phatic
• infame
• apophasis
• aphantic
• aphemia
• apophony
• aphantasia
• aphananthous
• autophanous
• bawneen
• bainin
• cacophonic
• confabulate
• contrabandista
• confitent
• coprophenomenon
• diaphanotype
• diaphanometer
• diaphonical
• dysphemism
• ecphonema
• echophenomenon
• effable
• euphotide
• fabulosity
• fabulate
• fabular
• famacide
• foquism
• fusilly
• goniophotometer
• homophene
• hyperphantasia
• inficiate
• macrophanerophyte
• macrophenomenon
• mesophanerophyte
• metaphenomenon
• microphanerophyte
• microphenomenon
• myophan
• nanophanerophyte
• nanophenomenon
• nefandous
• photoautotroph
• phanerophyte
• photodocumentary
• phantasticum
• phonal
• phantasmatography
• phene
• phasm
• phasmophobia
• phenomenic
• phenomenical
• phaneron
• prophetize
• protophenomenon
• pseudoprophet
• pyrophane
• speako
• superphenomenon
• subphenomenon
• symphoniette
• symphenomenon
• tonophant
• unphenomenal
• zampogna

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-